Replication data for: Team Incentives for Education in Developing Countries: A Randomized Field Experiment in Benin

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Project Citation:

Blimpo, Moussa P. Replication data for: Team Incentives for Education in Developing Countries: A Randomized Field Experiment in Benin. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113911V1

Project Description

Summary: I examine the impact of student incentives in Benin, using three different designs that can be implemented relatively cheaply and with administrative data. The first design is a standard incentive structure where students receive monetary rewards for reaching a performance target. In the other two designs, teams of four students receive incentives based on either their performance level as a group or in a team tournament scheme. I find a large and similar average treatment effect across designs, ranging from 0.27 to 0.34 standard deviations (Standard errors do not allow to rule out that the three designs are equally effective).

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      C93 Field Experiments
      D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
      I21 Analysis of Education
      I28 Education: Government Policy
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

Geographic Coverage: Benin, Africa

Data Type(s): survey data; experimental data

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V1 [2019-10-12]

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