Material Incentive Motivation and Working Memory Performance of Kindergartners: A Large-Scale Randomized Controlled Trial

Warabud Suppalarkbunlue, Sartja Duangchaiyoosook, Varunee Khruapradit and Weerachart Kilenthong

No 187, PIER Discussion Papers from Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of material incentive motivation on the working memory performance of kindergartners using a large-scale randomized controlled trial covering 7,123 children from 19 provinces of Thailand. This study measures working memory of young children using the digit span task. The first gfinding is that material incentive motivation raises the working memory performance of young children (p

Keywords: Working memory; Material incentive motivation; Extrinsic motivation; Early childhood; School readiness; Skill measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 I21 I25 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2022-08
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