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Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay

Johnston, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

I examine teacher preferences using a discrete-choice experiment, which I link to administrative data on teacher effectiveness. I estimate willingness-to-pay for a rich set of compensation elements and working conditions. Highly effective teachers usually have the same preferences as their...

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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Luo, Jin; Morgan, Andrew J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...

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The Effects of Teacher Quality on Adult Criminal Justice Contact

Rose, Evan K.; Schellenberg, Jonathan T.; Shem-Ṭov, Yotam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper estimates teachers' impacts on their students' future criminal justice contact (CJC). Using a unique data … deviation of teacher effects on students' future arrests of 2.7 percentage points (11% of the sample mean). Teachers' effects on …

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The Rise and Fall of the Teaching Profession : Prestige, Interest, Preparation, and Satisfaction over the Last Half Century

Kraft, Matthew A.; Arnold Lyon, Melissa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

representative time-series data on four interrelated constructs: occupational prestige, interest among students, the number of …

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The Lasting Impacts of Middle School Principals

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Morgan, Andrew J.; Rivkin, Steven G.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using rich Texas administrative data, we estimate the impact of middle school principals on post-secondary schooling, employment, and criminal justice outcomes. The results highlight the importance of school leadership, though striking differences emerge in the relative importance of different...

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College Students and Career Aspirations : Nudging Student Interest in Teaching

Christian, Alvin; Ronfeldt, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We survey undergraduate students at a large public university to understand the pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors …% chance they will pursue teaching, almost 27% report a nonzero chance of working as a teacher in the future. Students … teaching job). We run a randomized information experiment where we provide students with information on the pecuniary and non …

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Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools

Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...

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Employee Evaluation and Skill Investments : Evidence from Public School Teachers

Taylor, Eric S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

When an employee expects repeated evaluation and performance incentives over time, the potential future rewards create an incentive to invest in building relevant skills. Because new skills benefit job performance, the effects of an evaluation program can persist after the rewards end or even...

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Taking Teacher Evaluation to Scale : The Effect of State Reforms on Achievement and Attainment

Bleiberg, Joshua; Brunner, Eric J.; Harbatkin, Erica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Federal incentives and requirements under the Obama administration spurred states to adopt major reforms to their teacher evaluation systems. We examine the effects of these reforms on student achievement and attainment at a national scale by exploiting the staggered timing of implementation...

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Alternative Measures of Teachers' Value Added and Impact on Short and Long-Term Outcomes : Evidence From Random Assignment

Lavy, Victor; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes. This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...

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