of the Tiebout hypothesis using historical variation in mobility costs. Our extension of the Tiebout model to incorporate … such costs yields the following comparative statics: as mobility costs fall, the heterogeneity across communities of … mobility costs have fallen over time, a natural test of the Tiebout hypothesis is to take these predictions to the data here …

affect rates of teacher turnover--an important determinant of school quality. We find that male teachers are about 12% more …

firms, but this may not hold in teacher labor markets characterized by salary rigidities, barriers to entry, and substantial … is the possibility that teacher turnover adversely affects the quality of instruction in schools serving predominantly …

respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and … hours, we find no association between the introduction of accountability legislation and the change in teacher hours. We …

Much of education policy focuses on improving teacher quality, but most policies lack strong research support. We use … student achievement gains to estimate teacher value-added, our measure of teacher quality. The analysis reveals substantial … variation in the quality of instruction, most of which occurs within rather than between schools. Although teacher quality …

large gaps in our understanding of how teacher labor markets function. Most research on teacher labor markets use models … private sector. Collective bargaining and public decision making processes set teacher salaries. Thus it is unlikely that … develop and estimate a model that more accurately characterizes the institutional features of teacher labor markets. The …