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Teacher Performance Pay : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

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 publi...

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Main Authors: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe, Raju, Dhushyanth
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:
SKILLS
SCHOOL SYSTEM
EMPLOYMENT
PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS
COEDUCATIONAL SCHOOLS
SCHOOL TEACHERS
LEVEL OF SKILL
TEACHERS
EDUCATION MANAGEMENT
ACHIEVEMENT TESTS
STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO
SCHOOL HEAD
EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
ENROLLMENT
DISTRICT EDUCATION
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
GROUPS
HIGH SCHOOL
HEAD TEACHER
EDUCATION OUTCOMES
CLASSROOM RATIO
PAPERS
TEACHER PERFORMANCE
SCHOOL CENSUS
TEACHER COMPETENCY
SCHOOL LOCATION
SCHOOL INDICATORS
EXAMS
EXAM
HIGH SCHOOLS
OPEN ACCESS
EDUCATION SECTOR
EDUCATION FOR ALL
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS
TRAINING
EDUCATORS
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
EFFECTIVE TEACHING
PRIVATE SCHOOLS
GRADUATE
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
SCHOOL VISITS
SECONDARY SCHOOL
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
STUDENT OUTCOMES
PROVINCIAL EDUCATION
PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
OFFICIAL CURRICULUM
LEARNING
SCHOOL QUALITY
RESEARCH
TEACHER SALARIES
FIRST GRADE
SCHOOL STUDENTS
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
PRIMARY SCHOOL
ENROLLMENT FIGURES
TEACHING
PASS RATE
SCHOOL LEVEL
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
EDUCATION SYSTEMS
EXAM SCORE
ENROLLMENT BY GRADE
SCHOOL PARTICIPATION
SCHOOL YEAR
EXAM QUESTIONS
RURAL SCHOOLS
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
SCIENCE
VALUES
TEACHER WORKFORCE
PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS
STUDENT
SCHOOLS
HEAD TEACHERS
PARTICIPATION
EFFECTIVE TEACHERS
EDUCATION REFORM
URBAN SCHOOLS
ENROLLMENT DATA
ENROLLMENT RATE
SCHOOL LEADERS
RESEARCHERS
PRIMARY SCHOOL LEVEL
EARLY CHILDHOOD
STUDENT SCORES
NUTRITION
SCHOOL SYSTEMS
GRADE EXAM
EDUCATION GOALS
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
SMALL SCHOOLS
CURRICULUM
TEACHER
SCHOOL NUTRITION
TEACHER SHORTAGES
EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES
TEACHER RATIO
CHILDREN
EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS
FUNCTIONAL SCHOOLS
EDUCATION
STUDENT TEACHER RATIO
SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
HUMAN RESOURCES
RURAL AREAS
PRIVATE SCHOOL TEACHERS
SCHOOL TEACHER
TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
GIRLS
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
PUBLIC SCHOOL
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS
UNIVERSITY
STUDENTS
PRIMARY LEVEL
LEADERSHIP
SCHOOL EDUCATION
INTERVENTIONS
NET ENROLLMENT
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
STUDENTS PER TEACHER
EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
NET ENROLLMENT RATE
PRIMARY EDUCATION
READERS
CLASSROOM
CLASSROOMS
SCHOOL
HIGHER GRADES
NUMBER OF TEACHERS
STUDENT LEARNING
EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
ANNUAL SCHOOL CENSUS
PARTICIPATION RATES
UNIVERSITIES
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
PRIVATE SCHOOL
SCHOOL AGE
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/06/24638080/teacher-performance-pay-experimental-evidence-pakistan
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22180
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Summary: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.

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