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

Adele Atkinson; Simon Burgess; Bronwyn Croxson; Paul Gregg; Carol Propper; Helen Slater; Deborah Wilson

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2008.10.003

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

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

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	251-261
Number of pages	11
Journal	Labour Economics
Volume	16
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2008.10.003
Publication status	Published - Jun 2009

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Atkinson, A., Burgess, S., Croxson, B., Gregg, P., Propper, C., Slater, H., & Wilson, D. (2009). Evaluating the impact of performance-related pay for teachers in England. Labour Economics, 16(3), 251-261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2008.10.003

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