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Achievement Effects of Individual Performance Incentives in a Teacher Merit Pay Tournament
O’Rourke, Margaret - 2015
This paper estimates the effect of the individual incentives teachers face in a teacher-based value-added merit pay tournament on student achievement. We first build an illustrative model in which teachers use proximity to an award threshold to update their information about their own ability,...
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Contract Teachers : Experimental Evidence from India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2013
The large-scale expansion of primary schooling in developing countries has led to the increasing use of non-civil-service contract teachers who are hired locally by the school, are not professionally trained, have fixed-term renewable contracts, and are paid much lower salaries than regular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075428
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Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2009
Performance pay for teachers is frequently suggested as a way of improving education outcomes in schools, but the theoretical predictions regarding its effectiveness are ambiguous and the empirical evidence to date is limited and mixed. We present results from a randomized evaluation of a...
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The Fiscal Cost of Weak Governance : Evidence from Teacher Absence in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2014
We construct a new nationally-representative panel dataset of schools across 1297 villages in India and find that the … to be high, with 23.6 percent of teachers in public schools across rural India being absent during unannounced visits to … in India is around $1.5 billion per year, and that investing in better governance by hiring more inspectors to increase …
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Monitoring Works : Getting Teachers to Come to School
Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - 2021
teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal one-teacher schools in rural India, randomly chosen out of 120 (the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223077
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Bridging Education Gender Gaps in Developing Countries : The Role of Female Teachers
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2013
Recruiting female teachers is frequently suggested as a policy option for improving girls' education outcomes in developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of such a policy. We study gender gaps in learning outcomes, and the effectiveness of female...
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Personnel Management and School Productivity : Evidence from India
Lemos, Renata; Muralidharan, Karthik; Scur, Daniela - 2023
This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results. First …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263478
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Anatomy of a Contract Change
Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2014
We study a contract change for tea pluckers on an Indian plantation, with a higher government-stipulated baseline wage. Incentive piece rates were lowered or kept unchanged. Yet, in the following month, output increased by 20–80%. This response contradicts the standard model and several...
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Fire in the Belly? Employee Motives and Innovative Performance in Startups Versus Established Firms
Sauermann, Henry - 2017
concerned with the supply of human capital to entrepreneurship and innovation …
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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
Sauermann, Henry - 2015
to benefit innovation more than extrinsic motives such as pay …
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