Leaver, Clare, Ozier, Owen, Serneels, Pieter and Zeitlin, Andrew (2021) Recruitment, effort, and retention effects of performance contracts for civil servants: Experimental evidence from Rwandan primary schools. American Economic Review, 111 (7). 2213–2246. ISSN 0002-8282

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Abstract

This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay-for-performance (P4P). At the recruitment stage, teacher labor markets were randomly assigned to a 'pay-for-percentile' or fixed-wage contract. Once recruits were placed, an unexpected, incentive- compatible, school-level re-randomization was performed, so that some teachers who applied for a fixed-wage contract ended up being paid by P4P, and vice versa. By the second year of the study, the within-year effort effect of P4P was 0.16 standard deviations of pupil learning, with the total effect rising to 0.20 standard deviations after allowing for selection.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of International Development
Related URLs:	https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2020 00:07
Last Modified:	09 May 2022 00:20
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76974
DOI:	10.1257/aer.20191972

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