Replication data for: Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Esther Duflo; Rema Hanna; Stephen P. Ryan
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Duflo, Esther, Hanna, Rema, and Ryan, Stephen P. Replication data for: Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2012. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112523V1
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We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning in India. In treatment schools, teachers' attendance was monitored daily using cameras, and their salaries were made a nonlinear function of attendance. Teacher absenteeism in the treatment group fell by 21 percentage points relative to the control group, and the children's test scores increased by 0.17 standard deviations. We estimate a structural dynamic labor supply model and find that teachers respond strongly to financial incentives. Our model is used to compute cost-minimizing compensation policies. (JEL I21, J31, J45, O15)
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I21 Analysis of Education
J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
J45 Public Sector Labor Markets
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
I21 Analysis of Education
J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
J45 Public Sector Labor Markets
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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