Overcoming Inertia with a Nudge: How the AAIMS Program Increased Advanced Placement Participation in Arkansas
The Arkansas Advanced Initiative for Math and Science (AAIMS) is program with the goal to increase Advanced Placement (AP) participation and increase the passing rate of AP exams. The program offers monetary incentives and support to students and teachers for one year, effectively creating a natural...
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| description | The Arkansas Advanced Initiative for Math and Science (AAIMS) is program with the goal to increase Advanced Placement (AP) participation and increase the passing rate of AP exams. The program offers monetary incentives and support to students and teachers for one year, effectively creating a natural experiment. This paper exploits the one year treatment to empirically show that the program is effective at increasing a school’s AP participation rate by nudging the schools to increase AP offerings and satisfying a latent student demand for AP classes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0afa73a73ceb4a109277f00b752119092022-12-21T23:42:01ZengSciendoStudies in Business and Economics2344-54162018-04-01131677510.2478/sbe-2018-0006sbe-2018-0006Overcoming Inertia with a Nudge: How the AAIMS Program Increased Advanced Placement Participation in ArkansasHolt Andrew0McGarrity Joseph1Miami University, USAUniversity of Central Arkansas, USAThe Arkansas Advanced Initiative for Math and Science (AAIMS) is program with the goal to increase Advanced Placement (AP) participation and increase the passing rate of AP exams. The program offers monetary incentives and support to students and teachers for one year, effectively creating a natural experiment. This paper exploits the one year treatment to empirically show that the program is effective at increasing a school’s AP participation rate by nudging the schools to increase AP offerings and satisfying a latent student demand for AP classes.https://doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2018-0006aaimsadvanced placement participationadvanced placement incentives |
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| title | Overcoming Inertia with a Nudge: How the AAIMS Program Increased Advanced Placement Participation in Arkansas |
| title_full | Overcoming Inertia with a Nudge: How the AAIMS Program Increased Advanced Placement Participation in Arkansas |
| title_fullStr | Overcoming Inertia with a Nudge: How the AAIMS Program Increased Advanced Placement Participation in Arkansas |
| title_full_unstemmed | Overcoming Inertia with a Nudge: How the AAIMS Program Increased Advanced Placement Participation in Arkansas |
| title_short | Overcoming Inertia with a Nudge: How the AAIMS Program Increased Advanced Placement Participation in Arkansas |
| title_sort | overcoming inertia with a nudge how the aaims program increased advanced placement participation in arkansas |
| topic | aaims advanced placement participation advanced placement incentives |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2018-0006 |
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