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Bradley M. Allan

Project Manager, Education Innovation Laboratory, Harvard University

Bradley Allan is a project manager at the Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard University (EdLabs). In this capacity he manages the ongoing research operations for district-based innovations. While much of his work has centered on implementing student incentives programs, he is currently supporting EdLabs' school turnaround work and planning for future experiments in human capital and technology. He holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an A.M. from the University of Chicago.

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Impact of Incentive Programs on Student Achievement

September 27, 2011 • Charts

Students are more likely to respond to education incentives for certain inputs, such as reading books, than more general outputs, such as making good grades.

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The Power and Pitfalls of Education Incentives

Papers • September 2011 • Bradley M. Allan, Roland Fryer, Jr.

Recent incentive programs demonstrate that well-designed rewards to students can improve student achievement at relatively low costs. Bradley M. Allan and Roland G. Fryer draw on field experiments to propose a set of guidelines to design a successful education incentive program. Those guidelines include paying students to perform tasks that will lead to better academic performance rather than paying them for grades and test scores alone.