A study of a $20,000 selective transfer incentive examined high-performing teachers' behavioral responses in 10 districts¶

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q2 i? Protik et al. examined how high-performing teachers responded to an incentive program offering $20,000 to transfer into the hardest-to-staff schools in their districts; the available summary does not report what the responses were. → Ali Protik 2015

Evidence¶

Ali Protik 2015¶

Ali Protik, Steven Glazerman, Julie Bruch, Bing-ru Teh. (2015). Staffing a Low-Performing School: Behavioral Responses to Selective Teacher Transfer Incentives. Education Finance and Policy, vol. 10, no. 4. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/journal-article-staffing-a-lowperforming-school-behavioral-responses-to-selective doi:10.1162/edfp_a_00174

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The article's stated purpose is to examine "behavioral responses" to a selective transfer incentive offering $20,000 to high-performing teachers in 10 school districts; the available text is a publication summary that states this purpose but reports no findings or effect sizes.

"Protik et al. examine behavioral responses to an incentive program that offers high-performing teachers in 10 school districts across the country $20,000 to transfer into the hardest-to-staff schools in those districts."

Discussion¶

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