Learning from praise: Evidence from a field experiment with teachers

• Public praise in schools leads to better student performance on standardized exams. Better exam is driven by the students of praised teachers. There no effect grades non-praised treated Praised teachers give higher two months after intervention. Non-praised lower Financial incentive programs for are increasingly common, but little known about effectiveness non-monetary incentives improving educational outcomes. This field experiment measures how repeated public best impacts performance. In schools, perform exams undertaken six also assign marks their The who not assigned intervention, they do any worse final Compared costly interventions where receive financial incentives, effects remarkably large.