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

PFP had the same impact on reported teacher effort in schools with and without books. We document several results that are … consistent with the hypothesis that teacher effort and books are complements in education production …

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

This paper is the first to systematically document the relationship between individual teacher performance incentives … schools, students, and their families with our own survey conducted in 2000 regarding the use of teacher incentives. This … survey on teacher incentives has unique data on frequency and magnitude of merit raises and bonuses, teacher evaluation, and …

Advocates of teacher incentive programs argue that they can strengthen weak incentives, while opponents argue they lead … to teaching to the test.' We find evidence that existing teacher incentives in Kenya are indeed weak, with teachers … effect took place, however, provides little evidence of more teacher effort aimed at increasing long-run learning. Teacher …

a flexible teacher effort-choice model. Both the model and parameter estimates are necessary components in our …

This paper documents a new empirical regularity: teacher value-added increases within-teacher when accountability … incentives are strengthened. That finding motivates a strategy to separate value-added into incentive-varying teacher effort and … incentive-invariant teacher ability, combining rich longitudinal data with exogenous incentive-policy variation. Our estimates …

This paper estimates the effect of the individual incentives teachers face in a teacher-based value-added merit pay … teacher-student linked data, we test this prediction employing a method akin to the bunching estimator of Saez (2010 …