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Direct linkFryer, Roland G., Jr.; Levitt, Steven D.; List, John; Sadoff, Sally – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
Domestic attempts to use financial incentives for teachers to increase student achievement have been ineffective. In this paper, we demonstrate that exploiting the power of loss aversion--teachers are paid in advance and asked to give back the money if their students do not improve sufficiently--increases math test scores between 0.201 (0.076) and…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Incentives, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Tests
Curto, Vilsa E.; Fryer, Roland G., Jr. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
The SEED schools, which combine a "No Excuses'' charter model with a five-day-a-week boarding program, are America's only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED schools on academic achievement, with the goal of understanding whether changing a student's environment through…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Boarding Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, Outcomes of Education
