The Behavioral Determinants of School Achievement: A Lab in the Field Experiment in Middle School

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26 janvier 2025

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HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société)

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Centre pour la communication scientifique directe

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lab-in-the-field experiment education soft skills preferences cooperation competition teenagers

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Scholastic achievement School achievement Scholastic success Achievement, Academic Student achievement Educational achievement Academic underachievement Underachievement, Academic

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Etienne Dagorn et al., « The Behavioral Determinants of School Achievement: A Lab in the Field Experiment in Middle School », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.3b14e5...

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In this paper, we investigate how soft skills are related to educational achievement. We run a lab in the field experiment with pupils in Middle Schools to ask whether altruism, cooperation, willingness to compete and intrinsic motivation influence educational attainment. We find that willingness to compete is a strong predictor of individual educational achievement, while altruism is on the contrary negatively correlated with pupils' success. Family background is a strong predictor of educational attainment. After controlling for individual and social preferences, we find that girls outperform boys.

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