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School Governance, Teacher Incentives, and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools. NBER Working Paper No. 17939
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Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
We examine a program that enabled Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) in Kenya to hire novice teachers on short-term contracts, reducing class sizes in grade one from 82 to 44 on average. PTA teachers earned approximately one-quarter as much as teachers operating under central government civil-service institutions but were absent one day per week…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Ratio, Incentives, Governance, Teacher Associations