Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ajzenman, Nicolas; Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Marotta, Luana; Vargas, Carolina Mendez
• 署名单位: McGill University; Getulio Vargas Foundation; Inter-American Development Bank
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/725166
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 1049-1091
• 关键词: high-poverty schools; student-achievement; incentives; motivation; IDENTITY

摘要

Inequality in access to high-quality teachers is an important driver of socioeconomic student achievement gaps. We experimentally evaluate a novel nationwide low-cost government program that deployed two behavioral strategies to motivate teachers to apply to job vacancies in disadvantaged schools. These strategies consisted of an altruistic identity treatment, which primed teachers' altruistic identity by making it more salient, and an extrinsic incentives treatment, which simplified the presentation and increased the salience of an existing government monetary incentive scheme that rewards teachers who work in underprivileged institutions. Both strategies successfully encouraged teaching candidates to apply to disadvantaged schools.