Teacher team-based incentives: evidence from a natural experiment in a chinese middle school

• Main Authors: Leong, Kaiwen, Li, Huailu, Li, Dan, Xie, Yuchen
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Economic theory; Education; Incentive Scheme
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160041
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Using a natural experiment, we examine the causal effect of a team incentive scheme on teachers in a Chinese middle school that intended to help the school's students improve in their weak subjects. The scheme was successful, the average treatment effect is positively significant in math and to...