Incentives and Teacher Effort : Further Evidence from a Developing Country
Few would contest that teachers are a very important determinant of whether students learn in school. Yet, in the face of compelling evidence that many students are not learning what they are expected to learn, how to improve teacher performance ha...
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ABSENTEEISM ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ACHIEVEMENT TESTS ARITHMETIC AVERAGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS BOOK RENTAL CHILDREN CLASS TEACHING CLASSES CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS COLLEGE COLLEGE DEGREE COLLEGE EDUCATION COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMMUNITY SCHOOL CURRICULUM DECENTRALIZATION DECENTRALIZATION OF EDUCATION DEGREES DEVELOPING TEACHING MATERIALS DISTRICT EDUCATION ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATION FOR ALL EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION REFORMS EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION STATISTICS EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATIONAL PLANNING EDUCATORS EFFECTIVE EDUCATION EFFECTIVE TEACHERS ETHICS ETHNIC GROUPS EXAMINATION EXPENDITURES FEMALE TEACHER FEMALE TEACHERS FUTURE RESEARCH GRADING HOMEWORK HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES INDEXES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTION INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS INTERVENTIONS ITS KNOWLEDGE LEARNING LEARNING RESULTS LET LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY LITERACY RATES LITERATURE LOWER SECONDARY LOWER SECONDARY EDUCATION MATH ACHIEVEMENT MINISTRY OF EDUCATION MULTIGRADE TEACHING NATIONAL SCHOOL NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS NUMBER OF STUDENTS NUMBER OF TEACHERS OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PARENT- TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION PARENTAL PARTICIPATION POOR PEOPLE PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS PRIMARY SCHOOLS PRIMARY STUDENTS PRIMARY TEACHERS PRIVATE TUTORING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC SCHOOL PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS PUPIL ATTENDANCE PUPIL-TEACHER RATIOS READING REMEDIAL EDUCATION RESEARCH RESEARCH INSTITUTE RESEARCHERS RURAL AREAS RURAL SCHOOLS SCHOOL SCHOOL _TEACHER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES SCHOOL CENSUS SCHOOL CURRICULUM SCHOOL FACILITIES SCHOOL FEE SCHOOL FEES SCHOOL GOVERNANCE SCHOOL HOURS SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE SCHOOL INSPECTORS SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL LOCATION SCHOOL PRINCIPALS SCHOOL PROGRAM SCHOOL SURVEY SCHOOL SURVEY DATA SCHOOL SYSTEM SCHOOL TEACHERS SCHOOL VISITS SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SCIENCE SECONDARY EDUCATION SPORTS STUDENT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT ATTENDANCE STUDENT DEMAND STUDENT LEARNING STUDENT PERFORMANCE STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO STUDENTS STUDIES STUDY TEACHER TEACHER BEHAVIOR TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS TEACHER EVALUATION TEACHER INCENTIVES TEACHER PAY TEACHER PERFORMANCE TEACHER PROMOTION TEACHER QUALITY TEACHER RATIO TEACHER SALARIES TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING EXPERIENCE TEACHING MATERIALS TEACHING METHOD TEACHING METHODS TEACHING TOOLS TENURE TEST SCORES TESTING TEXTBOOK TEXTBOOKS TUITION TUITION FEES TUTORS UNIVERSITIES UNIVERSITY UPPER SECONDARY UPPER SECONDARY EDUCATION VALUES VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WOMEN WORKERS |
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ABSENTEEISM ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ACHIEVEMENT TESTS ARITHMETIC AVERAGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS BOOK RENTAL CHILDREN CLASS TEACHING CLASSES CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS COLLEGE COLLEGE DEGREE COLLEGE EDUCATION COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMMUNITY SCHOOL CURRICULUM DECENTRALIZATION DECENTRALIZATION OF EDUCATION DEGREES DEVELOPING TEACHING MATERIALS DISTRICT EDUCATION ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATION FOR ALL EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION REFORMS EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION STATISTICS EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATIONAL PLANNING EDUCATORS EFFECTIVE EDUCATION EFFECTIVE TEACHERS ETHICS ETHNIC GROUPS EXAMINATION EXPENDITURES FEMALE TEACHER FEMALE TEACHERS FUTURE RESEARCH GRADING HOMEWORK HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES INDEXES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTION INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS INTERVENTIONS ITS KNOWLEDGE LEARNING LEARNING RESULTS LET LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY LITERACY RATES LITERATURE LOWER SECONDARY LOWER SECONDARY EDUCATION MATH ACHIEVEMENT MINISTRY OF EDUCATION MULTIGRADE TEACHING NATIONAL SCHOOL NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS NUMBER OF STUDENTS NUMBER OF TEACHERS OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PARENT- TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION PARENTAL PARTICIPATION POOR PEOPLE PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS PRIMARY SCHOOLS PRIMARY STUDENTS PRIMARY TEACHERS PRIVATE TUTORING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC SCHOOL PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS PUPIL ATTENDANCE PUPIL-TEACHER RATIOS READING REMEDIAL EDUCATION RESEARCH RESEARCH INSTITUTE RESEARCHERS RURAL AREAS RURAL SCHOOLS SCHOOL SCHOOL _TEACHER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES SCHOOL CENSUS SCHOOL CURRICULUM SCHOOL FACILITIES SCHOOL FEE SCHOOL FEES SCHOOL GOVERNANCE SCHOOL HOURS SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE SCHOOL INSPECTORS SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL LOCATION SCHOOL PRINCIPALS SCHOOL PROGRAM SCHOOL SURVEY SCHOOL SURVEY DATA SCHOOL SYSTEM SCHOOL TEACHERS SCHOOL VISITS SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SCIENCE SECONDARY EDUCATION SPORTS STUDENT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT ATTENDANCE STUDENT DEMAND STUDENT LEARNING STUDENT PERFORMANCE STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO STUDENTS STUDIES STUDY TEACHER TEACHER BEHAVIOR TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS TEACHER EVALUATION TEACHER INCENTIVES TEACHER PAY TEACHER PERFORMANCE TEACHER PROMOTION TEACHER QUALITY TEACHER RATIO TEACHER SALARIES TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING EXPERIENCE TEACHING MATERIALS TEACHING METHOD TEACHING METHODS TEACHING TOOLS TENURE TEST SCORES TESTING TEXTBOOK TEXTBOOKS TUITION TUITION FEES TUTORS UNIVERSITIES UNIVERSITY UPPER SECONDARY UPPER SECONDARY EDUCATION VALUES VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WOMEN WORKERS Dang, Hai-Anh H. King, Elizabeth M. Incentives and Teacher Effort : Further Evidence from a Developing Country |
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East Asia and Pacific Lao People's Democratic Republic |
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Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6694 |
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Few would contest that teachers are a
very important determinant of whether students learn in
school. Yet, in the face of compelling evidence that many
students are not learning what they are expected to learn,
how to improve teacher performance has been the focus of
much policy debate in rich and poor countries. This paper
examines how incentives, both pecuniary and non-pecuniary,
influence teacher effort. Using school survey data from Lao
PDR, it estimates new measures of teacher effort, including
the number of hours that teachers spend preparing for
classes and teacher provision of private tutoring classes
outside class hours. The estimation results indicate that
teachers increase effort in response to non-pecuniary
incentives, such as greater teacher autonomy over teaching
materials, and monitoring mechanism, such as the existence
of an active parent-teacher association and the ability of
school principals to dismiss teachers. Methodologically, the
paper provides a detailed derivation of a simultaneous
ordinary least squares-probit model with school random
effects that can jointly estimate teacher work hours and
tutoring provision. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Dang, Hai-Anh H. King, Elizabeth M. |
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Dang, Hai-Anh H. King, Elizabeth M. |
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Dang, Hai-Anh H. |
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Incentives and Teacher Effort : Further Evidence from a Developing Country |
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Incentives and Teacher Effort : Further Evidence from a Developing Country |
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Incentives and Teacher Effort : Further Evidence from a Developing Country |
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Incentives and Teacher Effort : Further Evidence from a Developing Country |
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Incentives and Teacher Effort : Further Evidence from a Developing Country |
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incentives and teacher effort : further evidence from a developing country |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/11/18490965/incentives-teacher-effort-further-evidence-developing-country-incentives-teacher-effort-further-evidence-developing-country http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16920 |
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okr-10986-169202021-04-23T14:03:33Z Incentives and Teacher Effort : Further Evidence from a Developing Country Dang, Hai-Anh H. King, Elizabeth M. ABSENTEEISM ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ACHIEVEMENT TESTS ARITHMETIC AVERAGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS BOOK RENTAL CHILDREN CLASS TEACHING CLASSES CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS COLLEGE COLLEGE DEGREE COLLEGE EDUCATION COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMMUNITY SCHOOL CURRICULUM DECENTRALIZATION DECENTRALIZATION OF EDUCATION DEGREES DEVELOPING TEACHING MATERIALS DISTRICT EDUCATION ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION EDUCATION FOR ALL EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATION OUTCOMES EDUCATION REFORMS EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION STATISTICS EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATIONAL PLANNING EDUCATORS EFFECTIVE EDUCATION EFFECTIVE TEACHERS ETHICS ETHNIC GROUPS EXAMINATION EXPENDITURES FEMALE TEACHER FEMALE TEACHERS FUTURE RESEARCH GRADING HOMEWORK HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES INDEXES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTION INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS INTERVENTIONS ITS KNOWLEDGE LEARNING LEARNING RESULTS LET LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY LITERACY RATES LITERATURE LOWER SECONDARY LOWER SECONDARY EDUCATION MATH ACHIEVEMENT MINISTRY OF EDUCATION MULTIGRADE TEACHING NATIONAL SCHOOL NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS NUMBER OF STUDENTS NUMBER OF TEACHERS OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PARENT- TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION PARENTAL PARTICIPATION POOR PEOPLE PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS PRIMARY SCHOOLS PRIMARY STUDENTS PRIMARY TEACHERS PRIVATE TUTORING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC SCHOOL PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS PUPIL ATTENDANCE PUPIL-TEACHER RATIOS READING REMEDIAL EDUCATION RESEARCH RESEARCH INSTITUTE RESEARCHERS RURAL AREAS RURAL SCHOOLS SCHOOL SCHOOL _TEACHER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES SCHOOL CENSUS SCHOOL CURRICULUM SCHOOL FACILITIES SCHOOL FEE SCHOOL FEES SCHOOL GOVERNANCE SCHOOL HOURS SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE SCHOOL INSPECTORS SCHOOL LEVEL SCHOOL LOCATION SCHOOL PRINCIPALS SCHOOL PROGRAM SCHOOL SURVEY SCHOOL SURVEY DATA SCHOOL SYSTEM SCHOOL TEACHERS SCHOOL VISITS SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SCIENCE SECONDARY EDUCATION SPORTS STUDENT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT ATTENDANCE STUDENT DEMAND STUDENT LEARNING STUDENT PERFORMANCE STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO STUDENTS STUDIES STUDY TEACHER TEACHER BEHAVIOR TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS TEACHER EVALUATION TEACHER INCENTIVES TEACHER PAY TEACHER PERFORMANCE TEACHER PROMOTION TEACHER QUALITY TEACHER RATIO TEACHER SALARIES TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING EXPERIENCE TEACHING MATERIALS TEACHING METHOD TEACHING METHODS TEACHING TOOLS TENURE TEST SCORES TESTING TEXTBOOK TEXTBOOKS TUITION TUITION FEES TUTORS UNIVERSITIES UNIVERSITY UPPER SECONDARY UPPER SECONDARY EDUCATION VALUES VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WOMEN WORKERS Few would contest that teachers are a very important determinant of whether students learn in school. Yet, in the face of compelling evidence that many students are not learning what they are expected to learn, how to improve teacher performance has been the focus of much policy debate in rich and poor countries. This paper examines how incentives, both pecuniary and non-pecuniary, influence teacher effort. Using school survey data from Lao PDR, it estimates new measures of teacher effort, including the number of hours that teachers spend preparing for classes and teacher provision of private tutoring classes outside class hours. The estimation results indicate that teachers increase effort in response to non-pecuniary incentives, such as greater teacher autonomy over teaching materials, and monitoring mechanism, such as the existence of an active parent-teacher association and the ability of school principals to dismiss teachers. Methodologically, the paper provides a detailed derivation of a simultaneous ordinary least squares-probit model with school random effects that can jointly estimate teacher work hours and tutoring provision. 2014-02-05T15:03:05Z 2014-02-05T15:03:05Z 2013-11 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/11/18490965/incentives-teacher-effort-further-evidence-developing-country-incentives-teacher-effort-further-evidence-developing-country http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16920 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6694 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific Lao People's Democratic Republic |