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Publication Date: 2022
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Teacher Incentives and Student Performance: Evidence from Brazil
Lépine, Andrea
Education Finance and Policy, v17 n3 p541-563 Sum 2022
This paper provides evidence on a large-scale teacher incentive program in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, which awarded group bonuses to teachers and school staff conditional on improvements in student performance. By using a difference-in-differences and triple-differences framework with a series of alternative counterfactual groups, I show that the program had positive effects on student achievement up to seven years after implementation, although improvements vary across grades and subjects. Although it could be expected that free-riding effects increase with the number of teachers in schools, limiting the impact of the program, this does not seem to be the case.
Descriptors: Incentives, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Teacher Salaries, Program Effectiveness
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Brazil
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