The importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for measuring IQ

Lex Borghans, Huub Meijers and Bas ter Weel

Economics of Education Review, 2013, vol. 34, issue C, 17-28

Abstract: This research provides an economic model of the way people behave during an IQ test. We distinguish a technology that describes how time investment improves performance from preferences that determine how much time people invest in each question. We disentangle these two elements empirically using data from a laboratory experiment. The main findings is that both intrinsic (questions that people like to work on) and extrinsic motivation (incentive payments) increase time investments and as a result performance. The presence of incentive payments seems to be more important than the size of the reward. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation turn out to be complements.

Keywords: Incentives; Cognitive test scores (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.01.008

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