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 …

PFP had the same impact on reported teacher effort in schools with and without books. We document several results that are … consistent with the hypothesis that teacher effort and books are complements in education production …

We study personnel flexibility in charter schools by exploring how teacher retention varies with teacher and school …

This paper presents the first causal evidence on the effects of school accountability systems on teacher labor markets … accountability shocks influence the teacher labor market; specifically, teachers are more likely to leave schools that have been …

public education. These schools feature a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior …

teacher impacts on student achievement. We found that students randomly assigned to highly-rated applicants performed better …

We develop an algorithm for detecting teacher cheating that combines information on unexpected test score fluctuations … that serious cases of teacher or administrator cheating on standardized tests occur in a minimum of 4-5 percent of …

that teacher mobility is much more strongly related to characteristics of the students, particularly race and achievement …

. Most of this research focuses on the impact of teacher salaries, experience, and measures of teachers' pre-service training … paper, we estimate the effect of in-service teacher training on children's reading and mathematics achievement in Jerusalem … implemented on a smaller scale. The estimates for non-religious schools suggest that, at least in this case, teacher training …