-hired civil-service teachers in schools randomly assigned PTA contract teachers endogenously reduced their effort. Civil … existing teachers. A governance program that empowered parents within PTAs reduced both forms of capture. The best contract …

We examine a program that enabled Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) in Kenya to hire novice teachers on short …-term contracts, reducing class sizes in grade one from 82 to 44 on average. PTA teachers earned approximately one-quarter as much as … teachers operating under central government civil-service institutions but were absent one day per week less and their students …

-hired civil-service teachers in schools randomly assigned PTA contract teachers endogenously reduced their effort. Civil … existing teachers. A governance program that empowered parents within PTAs reduced both forms of capture. The best contract …

-term responses of a grant to school committees in Niger show that parents increased participation and responsibility, but these …

We identify the causal effect of teacher qualifications on parents’ investments in their children. Exploiting a unique …, high-stakes educational setting in which teachers are randomly assigned to classes, we show that parents react to more … qualified teachers by increasing their financial investments in their children. The key mechanism is an increase in parents …