May

5

2022

1:30—3:00 PM ET

Can Teacher Pay-for-Performance Incentives be Implemented at Scale? A Debate!

TEAM PRO INCENTIVES AT SCALE

Isaac Mbiti, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of Virginia, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy

Gregory Elacqua, Principal Economist, Education Division Inter-American Development Bank

Andrew Zeitlin, Assistant Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University

TEAM CON INCENTIVES AT SCALE

Adrienne Lucas, Professor of Economics, Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware

Venkatesh Sundararaman, Lead Economist, Education Middle East and North Africa, World Bank

Adelle Pushparatnam, Education Specialist, World Bank

MODERATOR

David Evans, Senior Fellow and Research Manager, Center for Global Development

This event is co-sponsored by the World Bank and the Center for Global Development and features David Evans, Senior Fellow and Research Manager, Center for Global Development.

Incentives aimed at improving teacher performance in low- and middle-income countries have often proven effective in pilots, so why aren't more countries applying them at a large scale? This question has taken on greater urgency as teachers play a key role in trying to help children catch up on learning amid the pandemic. Listen to experts debate the research and reality on the use of teacher incentives and their impact in the classroom and on student performance.