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The impact of incentivizing training on students’ outcomes

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  • Paredes, Tatiana
  • Sevilla, Almudena

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This paper studies the effect on students’ scores of incentivizing in-service teacher training in a system that conditions teacher promotions to in-service training take-up. In Ecuador, teachers need to pass a compulsory knowledge test with a minimum score and undergo substantial training to qualify for a promotion. We use a regression discontinuity design to identify the causal effect of incentivizing in-service teacher training on students’ scores on a standardized national university entrance exam. We find that in-service training significantly improves students’ verbal test scores by 0.19 to 0.31 standard deviations (depending on the selected comparison window).

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  • Paredes, Tatiana & Sevilla, Almudena, 2024. "The impact of incentivizing training on students’ outcomes," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 120931, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  • Handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:120931
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    professional development; teachers; developing countries; regression discontinuity design;
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    • C10 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - General
    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General

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