Gregory Phelan
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Richardson, TX 75080
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Institutional Affiliation: University of Texas at Dallas
NBER Working Papers and Publications
December 2016 | Performance Information and Personnel Decisions in the Public Sector: The Case of School Principals
with Julie Berry Cullen, Eric A. Hanushek, Steven G. Rivkin: w22881
Firms and other organizations establish the criteria under which employees will be judged and the performance measures made available to supervisors, the board of directors and other stakeholders, and these structures almost certainly influence behavior and organization outcomes. Any divergence of the chosen performance metric from an ideal measurement of productivity may lead to suboptimal outcomes, particularly in the public sector where outside interest groups may rely more heavily on easily accessible ratings than better-informed insiders. In the case of public education, federal and state accountability systems provide considerable information about student outcomes and rate schools on that basis. However, the No Child Left Behind accountability legislation’s focus on pass rates rathe... |
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