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Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...
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A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator …
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Concerns about poor student performance have led schools to diverge from traditional teacher compensation and base a portion of pay on student outcomes. In the US, the number of school districts adopting such performancebased financial incentives has increased by more than 40% since 2004....
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We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides identifying variation. We find no effects of the hardship...
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the self-selection of individuals into teaching and across school sectors, and on teacher wages in private schools. I use … wages to teacher skills and introducing minimum competency requirements for teaching is predicted to increase student test … the pool of teachers, amplified by equilibrium effects on teacher wages in private schools. The equilibrium effects are …
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Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by …
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