Does Performance Related Pay for Teachers Improve Student Performance? Some Evidence from India.
In this paper data from a school survey in India is used to ask whether there is evidence for the payment of performance related pay and whether such pay structures do impact on student achievement. It is shown that--after controlling for student ability, parental background and the resources availa...
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| description | In this paper data from a school survey in India is used to ask whether there is evidence for the payment of performance related pay and whether such pay structures do impact on student achievement. It is shown that--after controlling for student ability, parental background and the resources available--private schools get significantly better academic results by relating pay to achievement; government schools do not. We discuss possible interpretations of this result. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:f2e6af77-429c-4975-9c9b-56bfe67d1aed2022-03-27T12:07:42ZDoes Performance Related Pay for Teachers Improve Student Performance? Some Evidence from India.Working paperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042uuid:f2e6af77-429c-4975-9c9b-56bfe67d1aedEnglishDepartment of Economics - ePrintsGPRG2005Kingdon, GTeal, FIn this paper data from a school survey in India is used to ask whether there is evidence for the payment of performance related pay and whether such pay structures do impact on student achievement. It is shown that--after controlling for student ability, parental background and the resources available--private schools get significantly better academic results by relating pay to achievement; government schools do not. We discuss possible interpretations of this result. |
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