The Design of Performance Pay in Education

Handbook of the Economics of Education

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 495-550

  Neal, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Hidden Action; Relative Performance; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053434115     PISSN: 15740692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53444-6.00006-7     Document Type: Chapter

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