Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within therealm of the linear agency … noise in the performance measure... …

Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of …

A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, whichprovides a useful framework for … thinking about pay for performance systems. I use thelessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for … performance inpractice.... …

Evidence on schools' performance is confined to comparisons across schools, usually based on value-added measures. We … using measures of workplace performance that are common across all workplaces. We focus on the role played by management … practices in explaining differences in the performance of schools versus other workplaces, and performance across the schools …

margin weaker members, in terms of performance, of that subgroup …

performance. We conduct a randomized field experiment on more than a thousand sixth graders in Swedish primary schools. Extrinsic … treatment groups. The only treatment not increasing test performance is criterion-based grading on an A-F scale, which is the … typical grading method. Test performance is significantly higher if employing rank-based grading or giving students a symbolic …

increasingly, using performance-based contracts. Critics of performance-based incentive contracts stress their potential unintended … effects, including cream-skimming and other gaming activities intended to raise measured performance outcomes. We analyze the … incentive effects of performance-based contracts, as well as their impacts on provider job placement rates, using unique data on …

standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research …

Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within the realm of the linear agency … noise in the performance measure. In contrast, expectancy theory as developed by psychologists predicts lower effort levels … for noisier performance measures. We conduct a real effort laboratory experiment and find that effort levels are invariant …