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30 August 2022
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No. 187

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

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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 < 0.05) but the impact is not practically significant (less than 4 percents of the mean of the control group). The second one is that young children with different background characteristics respond to material incentive motivation uniformly except with respect to child age. The third finding is that school readiness is the most predictive variable for the working memory performance of young children.

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JEL: C93I21I25O15
Tags: working memorymaterial incentive motivationextrinsic motivationearly childhoodschool readinessskill measurement
The views expressed in this workshop do not necessarily reflect the views of the Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research or the Bank of Thailand.
Warabud Suppalarkbunlue
Warabud Suppalarkbunlue
University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
Sartja Duangchaiyoosook
Sartja Duangchaiyoosook
University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
Varunee Khruapradit
Varunee Khruapradit
University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
Weerachart Kilenthong
Weerachart Kilenthong
University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce

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