Hidden Teacher Effort in Educational Production: Monitoring vs. Merit Pay
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Keywords
Education; Moral Hazard; Monitoring; Merit Pay; Incentives; Teachers;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2005-04-16 (Education)
- NEP-HPE-2005-04-16 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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