Sweating bullets: Heat, high-stakes evaluations, and the role of incentives
We study the effect of temperature on students' performance and how changes in the incentives to study alter this impact in the context of high-school exit exams in Colombia. We show that temperature increases have a negative impact on exam scores, particularly among urban students. Conversely, rura...
| Autores principales: | , , |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Springer
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176439 |
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