Tinkering toward accolades: School gaming under a performance accountability system
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- Julie Berry Cullen & Randall Reback, 2006. "Tinkering Toward Accolades: School Gaming Under a Performance Accountability System," NBER Working Papers 12286, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
school accountability; performance standard; caseload manipulation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- H39 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Other
- I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2006-06-10 (Education)
- NEP-PBE-2006-06-10 (Public Economics)
- NEP-URE-2006-06-10 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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