, private school teacher pay is positively correlated with teacher effectiveness, and better-managed private schools are more …

present results from a randomized evaluation of a teacher incentive program implemented across a large representative sample …

doubling of base teacher salaries. Using a large-scale randomized experiment across a representative sample of Indonesian … significantly improved teacher satisfaction with their income, reduced the incidence of teachers holding outside jobs, and reduced … measures of teacher effort, and had no impact whatsoever on student learning outcomes. Thus, contrary to the predictions of …

-based measures of school quality, including infrastructure, pupil-teacher ratios, and monitoring. However, teacher absence continues … schools. Improvements in school infrastructure and service conditions are not correlated with lower teacher absence. We find …-scale experiments. First, reductions in pupil-teacher ratios are correlated with increased teacher absence. Second, increases in the …

the impact of contract teachers using data from an 'as is' expansion of contract-teacher hiring across a representative … years, students in schools with an extra contract teacher performed significantly better than those in comparison schools by … school than civil-service teachers (18% vs. 27%). Combining the experimental reduction in school-level pupil-teacher ratio …

improving by an additional 0.036σ in years when they are taught by a female teacher, with no adverse effects on boys when they … are taught by female teachers; (4) The overall gains from having a female teacher are mainly attributable to their greater …-gender teacher on student attendance, suggesting that the mechanism for the impact on learning outcomes is not on the extensive …