Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay

Ludger Woessmann ()

No 5101, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international achievement micro data, this paper estimates student-level international education production functions. The use of teacher salary adjustments for outstanding performance is significantly associated with math, science, and reading achievement across countries. Scores in countries with performance-related pay are about one quarter standard deviations higher. Results avoid bias from within-country selection and are robust to continental fixed effects and to controlling for non-performance-based forms of teacher salary adjustments.

Keywords: international; teacher performance pay; PISA; student achievement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2010-07
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Published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (3), 404-418

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