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Social accountability offers a viable alternative to top-down supervision of service delivery in remote areas when travel cost renders the latter ineffective. However, this bottom-up approach may not be effective when the community has weak authority relative to the service provider. This paper...
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This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary … that stronger incentives decrease student well-being and intrinsic motivation to study. …
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achievement, the extent of direct effect of incentives on teachers' achievement, and the extent of direct effect of work passion … on teacher fs achievement, and the effect of incentives on teachers ' achievement through job satisfaction, as well as …Purpose: This study aims to empirically investigate the direct effect of incentives on job satisfaction, and the extent …
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math achievement. We find little evidence that PFP improved attendance or achievement in schools without books even though … and books are complements in education production and document several results that are consistent with this hypothesis. …
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incentives has increased by more than 40% since 2004. Evidence on individual incentives in developed countries is mixed, with … that incentives can be highly effective and far cheaper to implement. Innovative incentive mechanisms such as incentives …
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This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary … that stronger incentives decrease student well-being and intrinsic motivation to study. …
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education incentives by incentivising inputs rather than output, by focusing on high stakes outcomes, and by comparing financial … incentives, and identify a "right tail" of underperforming students who experience a significant impact on high stakes …
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This paper studies responses to high-stakes incentives arising from early ability tracking. We use three complementary … that stronger incentives decrease student well-being and intrinsic motivation to study. …
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Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main … contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently … identity responds to state affirmative action policy, albeit with a different conclusion for multiracial blacks, and are now …
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