Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

We present evidence from the first three years of a randomized controlled trial of a government-administered pilot teacher performance pay program in Punjab, Pakistan. The program offers yearly cash bonuses to teachers in a sample of 600 public primary schools with the lowest mean student exam score...

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Main Authors:	Barrera-Osorio, Felipe, Raju, Dhushyanth
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Elsevier 2018
Subjects:	PERFORMANCE PAY INCENTIVE PAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS TEACHER EFFORT PRIMARY EDUCATION
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29173

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spelling	okr-10986-291732021-05-25T10:54:43Z Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan Barrera-Osorio, Felipe Raju, Dhushyanth PERFORMANCE PAY INCENTIVE PAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS TEACHER EFFORT PRIMARY EDUCATION We present evidence from the first three years of a randomized controlled trial of a government-administered pilot teacher performance pay program in Punjab, Pakistan. The program offers yearly cash bonuses to teachers in a sample of 600 public primary schools with the lowest mean student exam scores in the province. The bonus is linked to the change in the school's average student exam scores, the change in the school's enrollment, and the level of student exam participation in the school. Bonus receipt and size are randomly assigned across schools according to whether or not the teacher is the school's head. The program increases student exam participation rates in the second and third year and increases enrollment in grade 1 in the third year. We do not find that the program increases student exam scores in any year. Mean impacts are similar across program variants. The absence of positive impacts on test scores may be due to weaknesses in the program's incentive structure and/or limitations in the program's administrative data. 2018-01-18T18:26:14Z 2018-01-18T18:26:14Z 2017-02 Journal Article Journal of Public Economics 0047-2727 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29173 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Elsevier Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research South Asia Pakistan
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spellingShingle	PERFORMANCE PAY INCENTIVE PAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS TEACHER EFFORT PRIMARY EDUCATION Barrera-Osorio, Felipe Raju, Dhushyanth Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
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description	We present evidence from the first three years of a randomized controlled trial of a government-administered pilot teacher performance pay program in Punjab, Pakistan. The program offers yearly cash bonuses to teachers in a sample of 600 public primary schools with the lowest mean student exam scores in the province. The bonus is linked to the change in the school's average student exam scores, the change in the school's enrollment, and the level of student exam participation in the school. Bonus receipt and size are randomly assigned across schools according to whether or not the teacher is the school's head. The program increases student exam participation rates in the second and third year and increases enrollment in grade 1 in the third year. We do not find that the program increases student exam scores in any year. Mean impacts are similar across program variants. The absence of positive impacts on test scores may be due to weaknesses in the program's incentive structure and/or limitations in the program's administrative data.
format	Journal Article
author	Barrera-Osorio, Felipe Raju, Dhushyanth
author_facet	Barrera-Osorio, Felipe Raju, Dhushyanth
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title	Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
title_short	Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
title_full	Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
title_fullStr	Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
title_full_unstemmed	Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
title_sort	teacher performance pay : experimental evidence from pakistan
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2018
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Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

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