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

school in order to avoid the negative attention they receive when their students perform poorly on primary leaving exams. We … attendance rates two school years later from .56 to .60. These attendance gains were driven primarily by outcomes in treatment …

We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children … an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and …

many merit pay systems have been established in school districts across the U.S., very little empirical evidence concerning … their influence on student achievement exists. A natural experiment arose in a county in which one high school piloted a … merit pay system that rewarded student retention and student evaluations of teachers while another comparable high school …

not hurt other disadvantaged schools, but rather induced some teachers not to remain in their current school or to opt …