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Detailed Information

Country	Country: United States
GDP per capita	53.645
Context details	N/A
Age	Grades 9-12

2. Intervention

Implementation year	2008
Implementer	Researchers
Duration (months)	8
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	Students or families received monthly payments if students met standards for attendance, behavior, grades and test scores

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	Individual

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Grades 9-12	Graduation	N/A	N/A	995	Coeff: -3.70; SE: 3.50; SD: 100.00

Study	Levitt, Steven D., John A. List, and Sally Sadoff. "The effect of performance-based incentives on educational achievement: Evidence from a randomized experiment." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. 22107 (2016).