Teacher Performance Pay

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Barrera-Osorio, Felipe, Raju, Dhushyanth
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2015-06
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 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/22180
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