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Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

Authors :
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe
Raju, Dhushyanth
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
World Bank, Washington, DC, 2015.

Abstract

This paper presents 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 public primary schools with the lowest mean student exam scores in the province. Bonuses are linked to three school-level indicators: the gain in student exam scores, the gain in school enrollment, and the level of student exam participation. Bonus receipt and size are also randomly assigned across schools according to whether or not the teacher is the school’s head. On average, the program increases school enrollment by 4.1 percent and student exam participation rates by 3.4 percentage points, both in the third year. The analysis does not find that the program increases student exam scores in any year. Mean impacts are similar across program variants. The positive mean impact on school enrollment is mainly seen in urban schools and the positive mean impact on student exam participation rates is only seen in rural schools.

Subjects

Subjects :
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
CLASSROOM RATIO
EDUCATION SECTOR
PRIMARY SCHOOL LEVEL
LEVEL OF SKILL
OFFICIAL CURRICULUM
EXAMS
CHILDREN
EDUCATION SYSTEMS
TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
SCHOOL SYSTEMS
TEACHER SALARIES
CLASSROOM
SCHOOL HEAD
RURAL SCHOOLS
EMPLOYMENT
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
EXAM
SCHOOL AGE
HEAD TEACHERS
VALUES
Education and Research [T22]
EDUCATION GOALS
EDUCATION
SCIENCE
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
ANNUAL SCHOOL CENSUS
SCHOOL CENSUS
EDUCATORS
EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
NUMBER OF TEACHERS
CURRICULUM
GROUPS
STUDENT SCORES
GIRLS
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
INTERVENTIONS
EFFECTIVE TEACHERS
ENROLLMENT FIGURES
TEACHERS
STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO
PRIVATE SCHOOL TEACHERS
NET ENROLLMENT RATE
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS
PRIMARY EDUCATION
education
STUDENTS
GRADE EXAM
EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS
SCHOOL NUTRITION
ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
SCHOOLS
PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
PASS RATE
TEACHER
SCHOOL LOCATION
RURAL AREAS
Pakistan [L16]
STUDENTS PER TEACHER
URBAN SCHOOLS
GRADUATE
TEACHER PERFORMANCE
ACHIEVEMENT TESTS
HEAD TEACHER
CLASSROOMS
EARLY CHILDHOOD
SMALL SCHOOLS
SCHOOL TEACHER
PROVINCIAL EDUCATION
EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
SCHOOL YEAR
PUBLIC SCHOOL
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA
EXAM SCORE
RESEARCH
EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES
EDUCATION MANAGEMENT
EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
HIGH SCHOOL
TEACHER COMPETENCY
SCHOOL VISITS
ENROLLMENT DATA
EDUCATION OUTCOMES
OPEN ACCESS
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
SCHOOL EDUCATION
PAPERS
EXAM QUESTIONS
PRIMARY LEVEL
SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
DISTRICT EDUCATION
SCHOOL STUDENTS
SCHOOL INDICATORS
STUDENT
TEACHER RATIO
TEACHER WORKFORCE
PARTICIPATION RATES
HIGH SCHOOLS
FUNCTIONAL SCHOOLS
SCHOOL TEACHERS
SKILLS
SCHOOL QUALITY
NUTRITION
RESEARCHERS
NET ENROLLMENT
SECONDARY SCHOOL
HIGHER GRADES
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
SCHOOL PARTICIPATION
ENROLLMENT RATE
TRAINING
READERS
PARTICIPATION
HUMAN RESOURCES
PRIVATE SCHOOL
TEACHING
EDUCATION REFORM
LEARNING
SCHOOL LEVEL
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
TEACHER SHORTAGES
STUDENT LEARNING
SCHOOL SYSTEM
PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
PRIVATE SCHOOLS
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
PRIMARY SCHOOL
UNIVERSITIES
ENROLLMENT
EFFECTIVE TEACHING
ENROLLMENT BY GRADE
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
EDUCATION FOR ALL
STUDENT OUTCOMES
FIRST GRADE
STUDENT TEACHER RATIO
PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
SCHOOL
COEDUCATIONAL SCHOOLS
CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
UNIVERSITY
LEADERSHIP
SCHOOL LEADERS
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.dedup.wf.001..44a665ae849567b1a81fc1fe5b610f6d