{"id":2487,"date":"2020-01-27T16:52:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T21:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:47:29","slug":"full-article-incentives-work-getting-teachers-to-come-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/content-type\/full-article-incentives-work-getting-teachers-to-come-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Article: \u201cIncentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/epod.cid.harvard.edu\/publications\/incentives-work-getting-teachers-come-school\" title=\"\u201cIncentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School\u201d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\u201cIncentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School\u201d\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h1>\n<h3>\n\t\tarticle by Esther Duflo, Rema Hanna, and Stephen Ryan\n\t<\/h3>\n\t<p>Unsplash.com<\/p>\n\t<p>Building off a previous article in which teacher absenteeism was suggested to be a significant problem for developing countries, Esther Duflo, Hanna Rema and Ryan Stephen designed an experiment to try to incentivize teachers to go to class. They had the children take a picture with the teacher at the beginning and the end of the day. The researchers found that this interventions made a difference in teacher attendance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\t<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning in India. In treatment schools, teachers&#8217; attendance was monitored daily using cameras, and their salaries were made a nonlinear function of attendance. Teacher absenteeism in the treatment group fell by 21 percentage points relative to the control group, and the children&#8217;s test scores increased by 0.17 standard deviations. We estimate a structural dynamic labor supply model and find that teachers respond strongly to financial incentives. Our model is used to compute cost-minimizing compensation policies. (JEL I21, J31, J45, O15)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/epod.cid.harvard.edu\/publications\/incentives-work-getting-teachers-come-school\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDownload a working paper version of the article\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<p><strong>Citation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Duflo, Esther, Rema Hanna, and Stephen P. Ryan. <em>2012.<\/em> &#8220;Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School<em>.&#8221;<\/em> <em>American Economic Review<\/em>, <em>102 (4): 1241-78<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esther Duflo, Hanna Rema and Ryan Stephen tried to incentivize teachers to go to class by making the children take a picture with the teacher at the beginning and the end of the day, and found that the intervention had made a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"featured_media":2414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[60,92,308,100,89],"tags":[186,185,533,103,561,523,236,237,238,560],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-type","category-education-browse-by-research-topic","category-full-research-articles","category-methods-and-measurement-browse-by-research-topic","category-browse-by-research-topic","tag-duflo","tag-education","tag-esther-duflo","tag-india","tag-measurement-and-methods","tag-nobel-2019","tag-randomized-controlled-trial","tag-rct","tag-south-asia","tag-teacher-absenteeism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}