Rwandan Primary School Teacher Performance Contract Experiment

Experimental data from a two-tiered randomized trial on teacher recruitment and effort under pay-for-performance contracts in Rwanda. The study measured effects on pupil learning, finding a within-year effort effect of 0.16 standard deviations. The dataset is associated with a research paper by Andrew Zeitlin.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the selection effect of performance contracts based on the recruitment-stage randomization.
• Estimating the causal effort effect of pay-for-performance based on the within-year re-randomization.
• Modeling the total impact on pupil learning outcomes based on the reported standard deviation effects.
• Comparing the effectiveness of pay-for-percentile versus fixed-wage contracts for teacher recruitment and retention.

Strengths

• Data is from a two-tiered randomized controlled trial, which suggests a strong causal identification strategy.
• The description reports specific effect sizes on pupil learning (0.16 and 0.20 standard deviations).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Andrew Zeitlin

Collection Method

Experimental data from a two-tiered randomized assignment of teacher labor markets and a subsequent school-level re-randomization.

Geography

Rwanda