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Financial incentives may reduce teacher absence and improve student performance, but they may also lead teachers and schools to simply exaggerate attendance. Zeitlin and co-authors report on an experiment in Uganda that combined pay-for-performance for teachers with a separate experiment that enlist...

Join CGD for a MADS with Leonardo Iacovone where he will present his joint research on the determinants of export success for African firms. This work builds on a new, transaction-level database of exports collected by customs authorities in Malawi, Mali, Senegal, and Tanzania. Iacovone and co-autho...