Effects of Perceived Productivity on Study Effort: Evidence from a Field Experiment
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How does effort respond to the perceived relationship between effort and rewards? The answer is ambiguous since leisure and rewards can be either substitutes or complements. To answer this question, I conduct a two-part field experiment with a widely used online learning platform. For one group of students, I measure the causal relationship between effort and rewards. Then, for a second group of students, I exogenously manipulate students’ beliefs about the effort-rewards relationship by assigning them to different information treatments, each of which provides factual information based on the first group. I find that students change their study effort in response to the changes in their beliefs, and the direction of the change in effort is predicted by their locus of control. In response to a decrease in the perceived effectiveness of effort, students who believe that they can compensate for adverse developments (internal locus of control) reduce their effort, while students who believe that they cannot compensate (external locus of control) do not. The result suggests that changing students’ beliefs about the effortrewards relationship can significantly influence their human capital accumulation in a heterogeneous
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