We use a field experiment in Tanzania to compare the effectiveness on learning of two teacher performance pay systems …

We examine the impact of having a same-race teacher on students' long-run educational attainment. Leveraging random … student-teacher pairings in the Tennessee STAR class-size experiment, we find that black students randomly assigned to a black … teacher in grades K-3 are 5 percentage points (7%) more likely to graduate from high school and 4 percentage points (13%) more …

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

little or no association between exposure to an own-race teacher and student achievement. This paper presents new evidence on …-year assignment to an own-race teacher significantly increased the math and reading achievement of both black and white students by …

, we test whether a teacher's performance on each measure under naturally occurring (i.e., non-experimental) settings … predicts performance following random assignment of that teacher to a class of students. Combining our results with those from … two previous experiments, we provide further evidence that value-added measures are unbiased predictors of teacher …

field experiment, we document meaningful improvements in teacher job performance when high- and low-performing teachers … control classrooms. These improvements in teacher performance persisted, and perhaps grew, in the year after treatment …

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 …

classrooms during the 2014-15 school year, we find no significant impact on reading performance. Teacher survey responses and …