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 …

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 …

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 …

likelihood that a teacher works sick ("presenteeism"), especially during flu season. Taken together, these results suggest that a …

Teacher value-added (VA) measures how teachers improve their students' contemporaneous test scores. Many teachers …

fundinq status of teacher pension plans for the fifty states and for selected localities for the decade, 1971-1980. A pension …