Beyond Incentives: Do Schools Use Accountability Rewards Productively?

We use a regression discontinuity design to analyze an understudied aspect of school accountability systems-how schools use financial rewards. For two years, California's accountability system financially rewarded schools based on a deterministic function of test scores. Qualifying schools rece...

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Published in:	Journal of business & economic statistics Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 149 - 163
Main Authors:	Bacolod, Marigee, DiNardo, John, Jacobson, Mireille
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Alexandria Taylor & Francis 01.01.2012 American Statistical Association Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:	Academic achievement Accountability Accountability rewards Application programming interfaces California public schools Disadvantaged schools Economic statistics High schools Monetary incentives NCLB Payments Polynomials Regression analysis Regression discontinuity School districts School enrollment School performance Schools Social disadvantage Studies Test scores United States > US California
ISSN:	0735-0015, 1537-2707
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