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Tournaments, gift exchanges, and the effect of monetary incentives for teachers: the case of Chile
Fecha
2009Autor
Rau Binder, Tomás
Contreras Guajardo, Dante
Institución
Resumen
In this paper we evaluate the introduction in Chile of monetary incentives
for teachers, based on a school performance tournament. We
evaluate the tournament effect, i.e. the effect of introducing the incentive
scheme on all participant schools, both winning and losing. We
also evaluate the effect of winning the tournament on the next school
performance period, which we call the gift-exchange effect. Matching
and regression discontinuity techniques are used to identify both treatment
effects. The results indicate a positive and significant tournament
effect and a positive but nonsignificant gift-exchange effect.