Do Teacher Incentives Work?
Andy Brownback and Sally Sadoff. 2019. “Improving College Instruction through Incentives.” Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy.
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Community colleges are a key, low-cost entry point into higher education for millions of Americans, yet they are plagued by poor student performance and low rates of degree completion and transfer to four-year schools. Previous research has explored interventions targeted at students and aimed at improving academic performance. But what if we focused on their instructors instead?
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Great paper, but I have an issue with the student incentives. Free tuition might not be of interest to those underperforming in community colleges, so the likely result is that, when combined with teacher incentives, there is no real change. I would have split the student incentives into two treated groups: the first being allowed to go on a 3-day trip to some (exotic!) foreign location and the other being the prestige of a new console (a PS6 or the like!). These oppurtunities appeal more to young students nowadays, although I'm not american, so perhaps there are other more culturally engaging incentives out there! My experience as an intern in a stockbroker firm tells me that incentives work best when they're double-edged and benefit both parties, but perhaps less resources would be used up if they were one-sided.🤭
interesting use of loss aversion on the profs