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adulthood. The program led to a gradual increase in university education of the high school treated students, reaching a gain of …
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This chapter analyzes the design of incentive schemes in education while reviewing empirical studies that evaluate performance pay programs for educators. Several themes emerge. First, it is difficult to use one assessment system to create both educator performance metrics and measures of...
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teachers or with both genders. I also find that the direct impact of the bonus program on students' outcomes did not vary by …
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A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes. This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...
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In low-income countries, educators often encourage weak primary students to drop out before reaching the end of primary … school in order to avoid the negative attention they receive when their students perform poorly on primary leaving exams. We … performance of each of their students. Teachers responded to this Pay for Percentile (PFP) incentive system in ways that raised …
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paper, we estimate the effect of in-service teacher training on children's reading and mathematics achievement in Jerusalem …
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We analyze an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within … optimal levels of effort to all students. Moreover, because this scheme employs only ordinal information, it allows education …
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