more closely related to existing policy proposals. In analyses both of teacher mobility and of student performance, teacher … salaries are shown to have a modest impact. Teacher mobility is more affected by characteristics of the students (income, race …Important policy decisions rest on the relationship between teacher salaries and the quality of teachers, but the …

This paper studies how increasing teacher compensation at hard-to-staff schools can reduce inequality in access to … qualified teachers. Leveraging an unconditional change in the teacher compensation structure in Peru, we first show causal … scores. We then estimate a model of teacher preferences over local amenities, school characteristics, and wages using …

We use a field experiment in Tanzania to compare the effectiveness on learning of two teacher performance pay systems …

prices. Our analysis points to both the hiring of more teachers and increasing teacher pay as mechanisms for improving the …

, private school teacher pay is positively correlated with teacher effectiveness, and better-managed private schools are more …

I investigate the importance of the match between teachers and schools for student achievement. I show that teacher … effectiveness increases after a move to a different school, and I estimate teacher-school match effects using a mixed …-effects estimator. Match quality "explains away" a quarter of, and has two-thirds the explanatory power of teacher quality. Match …

present results from a randomized evaluation of a teacher incentive program implemented across a large representative sample …

We study the equity-efficiency implication of giving school districts control over teacher pay using an equilibrium … preferred teachers. We estimate the model using data from Wisconsin, where districts gained control over teacher pay in 2011. We … find that, all else equal, giving districts control over teacher pay would lead to more efficient teacher-district sorting …