TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Woo, Seokjin
AU  - Lee, Soohyung
AU  - Kim, Kyunghee
        TI  - Carrot and Stick? Impact of a Low-Stakes School Accountability Program on Student Achievement
        PY  - 2015/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9458
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9458
        AB  - A key concern in the design of education policies relates to the structure of incentives in accountability systems. This paper examines a school accountability program that provides financial support to low-performing schools but has no direct punishment scheme for recipients who do not exhibit improvement. Although the program does not include high-stakes consequences, our estimates indicate that the program reduced the share of underperforming students by 18 percent. This paper's results suggest that to improve student achievement, a school accountability program does not need to set high-stakes consequences that potentially induce unwanted strategic behaviors on the part of school workers.
        KW  - school performance
KW  - student achievement
KW  - school accountability
KW  - fuzzy regression discontinuity design
        ER  -