Evaluating the impact of performance-related pay for teachers in England

Adele Atkinson, Simon Burgess (), Bronwyn Croxson, Paul Gregg, Carol Propper, Helen Slater and Deborah Wilson

Labour Economics, 2009, vol. 16, issue 3, 251-261

Abstract: This paper evaluates the impact of a performance-related pay scheme for teachers in England. Using data which matches individual pupils to individual teachers, and contains both test scores and value-added, we test whether the introduction of a payment scheme based on pupil attainment increased teacher effort. Our evaluation design controls for pupil effects, school effects and teacher effects, and adopts a difference-in-difference methodology. We find that the scheme did improve test scores and value added increased on average by about 40% of a grade per pupil.

Keywords: Incentives; Teachers; pay; Education; reform; Pupil; attainment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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