Browsing Department of Economics by Subject "nepotism"
Now showing items 1-1 of 1
-
School Governance, Teacher Incentives, and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools
(Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-03-12)We examine a program that enabled Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) in Kenya to hire novice teachers on short-term contracts, reducing class sizes in grade one from 82 to 44 on average. PTA teachers earned approximately ...