achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district. Using an estimated equilibrium model of the teacher labor market … equilibrium and second-best reasoning in analyzing teacher labor market policies …

integration affected black teacher employment. Using newly assembled archival data from 781 southern school districts observed …, which approximates the experience of the modal southern district in this period, led to a 31.8% reduction in black teacher … school districts compensated for reduced black teacher employment by employing fewer total teachers and by increasing their …

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

Research on the relationship between teachers' characteristics and teacher effectiveness has been underway for over a … century, yet little progress has been made in linking teacher quality with factors observable at the time of hire. However … commercially available teacher selection instrument. Individually, we find that only a few of these predictors have statistically …

a flexible teacher effort-choice model. Both the model and parameter estimates are necessary components in our …

Some education policymakers focus on bringing down pupil-teacher ratios. Others argue that resources will have limited … impact without systematic reforms to education governance, teacher incentives, and pedagogy. We examine a program under which … Kenyan Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) at randomly selected schools were funded to hire an additional teacher on an annual …