performance-based promotions could be an important tool for raising school quality. …

estimate the causal impact of winning the award on the school choice decisions of talented teachers. By exploiting the fact …

In low-income countries, primary school students often fall far below grade level and primary dropout rates remain high …. Further, in some countries, educators encourage their weaker students to drop out before reaching the end of primary school …. These educators hope to avoid the negative attention that authorities direct to a school when its students perform poorly on …