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Incentive Design in Education: An Empirical Analysis / Hugh Macartney, Robert McMillan, Uros Petronijevic.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Macartney, Hugh.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21835.
- NBER working paper series no. w21835
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Incentive Design in Education
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.
- Summary:
- While incentive schemes to elicit greater effort in organizations are widespread, the incentive strength-effort mapping is difficult to ascertain in practice, hindering incentive design. We propose a new semi-parametric method for uncovering this relationship in an education context, using exogenous incentive variation and rich administrative data. The estimated effort response forms the basis of a counterfactual approach tracing the effects of various accountability systems on the full distribution of scores. We show higher average performance comes with greater score dispersion for a given accountability scheme, and that incentive designs not yet enacted can improve performance further, relevant to education reform.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2015.
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