portion of pay on student outcomes. In the US, the number of school districts adopting such performancebased financial …

Teachers are among the most important school-provided determinants of student success. Effective teachers improve … school leaders and education policymakers, and how the tools of applied economics can help address those challenges. The … effective teachers. We also discuss how different policies, incentives, school characteristics, and professional …

Proposals to use teachers' performance incentives as the basis for school reforms have recently attracted considerable … and school staff as merit pay and the rest, for the well-being of teachers in the school. I evaluate the effect of the …

programs: the first provided the school and its teachers with monetary performance incentives and the second with additional …