American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics
ISSN 1945-7782 (Print) | ISSN 1945-7790 (Online)
Team Incentives for Education in Developing Countries: A Randomized Field Experiment in Benin
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
(pp. 90–109)
Abstract
I examine the impact of student incentives in Benin, using three different designs that can be implemented relatively cheaply and with administrative data. The first design is a standard incentive structure where students receive monetary rewards for reaching a performance target. In the other two designs, teams of four students receive incentives based on either their performance level as a group or in a team tournament scheme. I find a large and similar average treatment effect across designs, ranging from 0.27 to 0.34 standard deviations (Standard errors do not allow to rule out that the three designs are equally effective).Citation
Blimpo, Moussa P. 2014. "Team Incentives for Education in Developing Countries: A Randomized Field Experiment in Benin." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 6 (4): 90–109. DOI: 10.1257/app.6.4.90Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- C93 Field Experiments
- D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- I21 Analysis of Education
- I28 Education: Government Policy
- O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration