‘Membership Has Its Privileges’: Status Incentives and Categorical Inequality in Education
Prizes – formal systems that publicly allocate rewards for exemplary behavior – play an increasingly important role in a wide array of social settings, including education. In this paper, we evaluate a prize system designed to boost achievement at two high schools by assigning students color-coded I...
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Language: | English |
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Society for Sociological Science
2016-05-01
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Series: | Sociological Science |
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Online Access: | https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-v3-13-264/ |