Teacher Incentives in Mexico in Beyond Pay: Motivating Teachers to Raise Student Learning. Lessons from Latin America

Tema de investigación:

Educación

Autor:

McEwan, P. J. and Santibañez, L

Descripción:

Mexican public school teachers are eligible for salary increases if they obtain scores above a cut-off in a national assessment. The assessment includes measures of teachers’ background characteristics in addition to end-of-year student test scores. This paper examines whether the program induced teachers to improve student test scores. As a counterfactual, it relies on the fact that some participating teachers face weaker incentives, because they face insurmountable barriers to promotion in a given year, or because they live in a state where teachers scoring above the cut-off have a lower probability of promotion. Overall, the paper does not find evidence of test score improvement.

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