3 papers
econ.GN2021
Recruitment, effort, and retention effects of performance contracts for civil servants: Experimental evidence from Rwandan primary schools
Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels +1
This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay-for-performance (P4P). At the recruitment stage, teacher labor…
econ.GN2020
Teacher turnover in Rwanda
Andrew Zeitlin
Despite widely documented shortfalls of teacher skills and effort, there is little systematic evidence of rates of teacher turnover in low-income countries. I investigate the incid…
econ.GN2020
Using Household Grants to Benchmark the Cost Effectiveness of a USAID Workforce Readiness Program
Craig McIntosh, Andrew Zeitlin
We use a randomized experiment to compare a workforce training program to cash transfers in Rwanda. Conducted in a sample of poor and underemployed youth, this study measures the i…