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100 _aLeaver, Clare et al
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245 _aRecruitment, effort, and retention effects of performance contracts for civil servants: Experimental evidence from rwandan primary schools
260 _aThe American Economic Review
300 _a111(7), Jul, 2021: p.2213-2246
520 _aThis paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay for performance (P4P). At the recruitment stage, teacher labor markets were randomly assigned to a "pay-for-percentile" or fixed-wage contract. Once recruits were placed, an unexpected, incentive-compatible, school-level re-randomization was performed so that some teachers who applied for a fixed-wage contract ended up being paid by P4P, and vice versa. By the second year of the study, the within-year effort effect of P4P was 0.16 standard deviations of pupil learning, with the total effect rising to 0.20 standard deviations after allowing for selection. – Reproduced
773 _aThe American Economic Review
906 _aCIVIL SERVANTS - RECRUITMENT
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