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Teaching and incentives: Substitutes or complements?
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Economics of Education Review . Dec2022, Vol. 91, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Interventions to promote learning are often categorized into supply- and demand-side approaches. In a randomized experiment to promote learning about COVID-19 among Mozambican adults, we study the interaction between a supply and a demand intervention, respectively: teaching via targeted feedback, and providing financial incentives to learners. In theory, teaching and learner-incentives may be substitutes (crowding out one another) or complements (enhancing one another). Experts surveyed in advance predicted a high degree of substitutability between the two treatments. In contrast, we find substantially more complementarity than experts predicted. Combining teaching and incentive treatments raises COVID-19 knowledge test scores by 0.5 standard deviations, though the standalone teaching treatment is the most cost-effective. The complementarity between teaching and incentives persists in the longer run, over nine months post-treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02727757
- Volume :
- 91
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Economics of Education Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160367327
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2022.102317