This paper presents findings from a national experimental evaluation of performance bonuses funded by the Teacher Incentive Fund grant program. The study finds no robust evidence of positive impacts of bonuses on student achievement, although some specifications suggest a small positive effect that compares favorably with other education interventions. When controlling for covariates, we find that offering bonuses of an average yearly cost of $100 per student had a small significant impact of about 0.04 standard deviations. However, these impacts are smaller (0.01 standard deviations) and become insignificant when not controlling for covariates or using an alternative method of inference.

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教育者绩效激励措施对学生有帮助吗？来自教师激励基金国家评估的证据

本文介绍了由教师奖励基金拨款计划资助的绩效奖金的国家实验评估结果。这项研究没有强有力的证据证明奖金对学生的成绩有正面影响，尽管一些规范表明奖金的正面影响很小，可与其他教育干预措施相提并论。在控制协变量时，我们发现向每位学生提供平均每年100美元的奖金对约0.04标准差的影响不大。但是，这些影响较小（0.01个标准差），并且在不控制协变量或使用其他推理方法时变得不重要。