Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay

Ludger Woessmann

No 3151, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

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: teacher performance pay; student achievement; international; PISA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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Journal Article: Cross-country evidence on teacher performance pay (2011)
Working Paper: Cross-country evidence on teacher performance pay (2011)
Working Paper: Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay (2010)
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