Arbeitspapier
Carrot and Stick? Impact of a Low-Stakes School Accountability Program on Student Achievement
A key concern in the design of education policies relates to the structure of incentives in accountability systems. This paper examines a school accountability program that provides financial support to low-performing schools but has no direct punishment scheme for recipients who do not exhibit improvement. Although the program does not include high-stakes consequences, our estimates indicate that the program reduced the share of underperforming students by 18 percent. This paper's results suggest that to improve student achievement, a school accountability program does not need to set high-stakes consequences that potentially induce unwanted strategic behaviors on the part of school workers.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9458
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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school accountability
student achievement
school performance
fuzzy regression discontinuity design
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Woo, Seokjin
Lee, Soohyung
Kim, Kyunghee
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2015
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Woo, Seokjin
- Lee, Soohyung
- Kim, Kyunghee
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2015
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