School governance, teacher incentives, and pupil–teacher ratios: Experimental evidence from Kenyan primary schools (doi:10.7910/DVN/9534YA)

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School governance, teacher incentives, and pupil–teacher ratios: Experimental evidence from Kenyan primary schools

doi:10.7910/DVN/9534YA

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2016-02-17

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Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael, 2016, "School governance, teacher incentives, and pupil–teacher ratios: Experimental evidence from Kenyan primary schools", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9534YA, Harvard Dataverse, V1

School governance, teacher incentives, and pupil–teacher ratios: Experimental evidence from Kenyan primary schools

doi:10.7910/DVN/9534YA

Duflo, Esther (MIT)

Dupas, Pascaline (Stanford University)

Kremer, Michael (Harvard University)

Stata

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Harvard Dataverse

Research Transparency, Data Ethics, and Governance

Research Support, Innovations for Poverty Action

2015-02-17

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9534YA

Social Sciences, Education, Student-teacher ratio, Test scores, Teachers, Governance, Teacher performance

Some education policymakers focus on bringing down pupil–teacher ratios. Others argue that resources will have limited impact without systematic reforms to education governance, teacher incentives, and pedagogy. We examine a program under which school committees at randomly selected Kenyan schools were funded to hire an additional teacher on an annual contract renewable conditional on performance, outside normal Ministry of Education civil-service channels, at one-quarter normal compensation levels. For students randomly assigned to stay with existing classes, test scores did not increase significantly, despite a reduction in class size from 82 to 44 on average. In contrast, scores increased for students assigned to be taught by locally-hired contract teachers. One reason may be that contract teachers had low absence rates, while centrally-hired civil-service teachers in schools randomly assigned contract teachers endogenously reduced their effort. Civil-service teachers also captured rents for their families, with approximately 1/3 of contract teacher positions going to relatives of existing teachers. A governance program that empowered parents within school committees reduced both forms of capture. The best contract teachers obtained civil service jobs over time, and we estimate large potential dynamic benefits from supplementing a civil service system with locally-hired contract teachers brought in on a probationary basis and granted tenure conditional on performance.

Kenya

Western Province

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Students and teachers in primary schools where TSC teachers were teaching at the time of the study.

Survey data

Observational data

International Child Support (ICS)

In Western Kenya, 210 schools were randomly divided into a comparison group (70 schools), and an Estra Teacher Program (ETP) group (140 schools). Of these 140 schools, 70 were randomly assigned to the tracking program and are not the focus of this paper. Finally, 34 of the 70 non-tracking ETP schools were randomly selected to partcipate in SBM training.

In-person interviews, In-class observations

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http://web.stanford.edu/~pdupas/DDK_ETP.pdf

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ETP_ado_files.zip

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User-written commands needed to run the code.

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ETP_Codebooks.zip

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Contains codebooks of all variables by dataset.

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ETP_code_JPubE.do

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Stata code used to produce the tables associated with "School governance, teacher incentives, and pupil–teacher ratios: Experimental evidence from Kenyan primary schools".

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ETP_Datasets.zip

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Contains all datasets associated with the study.

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ETP_JPubE_Dataverse_Files.zip

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Contains all files associated with the study (data, code, ado files, surveys, observation sheets, codebooks) in the proper folder structure, as well as Readme file.

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ETP_Surveys_Obs.zip

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Contain all surveys and observation sheets used over the course of the study.

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READ_ME_ETP_JPubE.pdf

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The readme document that accompanies the data and code. Contains information on how the data was constructed, the files needed to reproduce all tables, what is included in the data, and basic information about the study.

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