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Nudging Study Habits: Peer Tutoring in Higher Education

General Information

Project description

PROJECT SUMMARY
Arizona State University freshmen students eligible for the Student Engagement and Employment Development Plan (SEED), a work-study program, received emails designed to emphasize the benefits of joining the program and eliminate hassles in the application process.

IMPACT
The redesigned emails increased the number of students applying for SEED jobs by 3 percentage points, from 9% to 12% of students.

Source: B-Hub

Detailed information

Final report: Is there a final report presenting the results and conclusions of this project?

Yes

Final report

Pre-analysis plan: Is there a pre-analysis plan associated with this registration?

No

Additional information

<h3>Does a third party implement the intervention or is this a collaboration with another team?</h3><div class="csp"><p>Arizona State University</p> </div>

United States

Arizona State University

Who is behind the project?

Institution: Ideas42
Team: Ideas42

Project status:

Completed

Methods

Methodology: Experiment, Field Experiment
Could you self-grade the strength of the evidence generated by this study?: 1
Start date: 03/01/2015

What is the project about?

Policy area(s): Education, Labour and Employment
Topic(s): Services Uptake
Behavioural tool(s): Planning, Prompts, Reduce friction

Date published:

25 June 2021

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