More School Resources, Better Teacher Incentives, or Both to Improve Student Learning in Tanzania

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Muralidharan, K. Romero, Mauricio Schipper, Youdi
Copyright Year	2020
Abstract	Improving education quality in low-income countries is a top priority for the global human development agenda, with governments and donors spending over a hundred billion dollars annually on education. Researchers evaluated the impact of providing schools with an unconditional cash grant, a teacher incentive program, or both on student learning. The cash grant had no impact on student learning, while the teacher incentive program had mixed results. However, combining both programs together had an even greater impact on student learning compared to the sum of the effects from each individual component alone. These results suggest that combining spending on school inputs with improved teacher incentives could substantially increase the cost-effectiveness of public spending on education.
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