Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … harms students' human capital accumulation. The economics literature has largely ignored the reasons for and desirability of … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for …

This paper examines revealed parent preferences for their children's education using a unique data set that includes … the number of parent requests for individual elementary school teachers along with information on teacher attributes … strongly prefer teachers that principals describe as good at promoting student satisfaction and place relatively less value on …

This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results. First …, management quality in public schools is low, and ~2σ below high-income countries with comparable data. Second, private schools … have higher management quality, driven by much stronger people management. Third, people management quality is correlated …

, instilment of the capacity for individual study, has no effect while transparency, fairness, and proper feedback in teachers …

mid-career public school teachers where we can consider these two types of evaluation effect separately. Employee …

Financial incentives for teachers to increase student performance is an increasingly popular education policy around …

policies. A substantial body of prior research documents that more highly qualified teachers tend to work in more advantaged … schools, although this literature cannot determine the relative importance of supply versus demand factors in generating this … during the summer of 2006 and collected detailed information on the specific schools at which teachers interviewed. We …