The impact of incentivizing training on students’ outcomes

Paredes, Tatiana and Sevilla, Almudena ORCID: 0000-0001-6143-5903 (2024) The impact of incentivizing training on students’ outcomes. Economics of Education Review, 98. p. 102489. ISSN 0272-7757

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Abstract

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).

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2023 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Social Policy
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory L Education
JEL classification:	C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General > C10 - General I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education > I20 - General
Date Deposited:	04 Dec 2023 16:06
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2025 17:22
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/120931

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