longitudinal data on teachers, we estimate hazard models that identify the impact of this differential pay by comparing turnover …, science and special education teachers working in high poverty or academically failing public secondary schools. Using … patterns before and after the program's implementation, across eligible and ineligible categories of teachers, and across …

attracting academically talented, novice teachers to low-performing schools and retaining them in those schools for at least four …

who will be effective teachers and repel those who will not. I model the teacher labor market, incorporating dynamic self …

I investigate the importance of the match between teachers and schools for student achievement. I show that teacher … quality is negatively correlated with turnover, unrelated with exit, and increases with experience. This paper provides the …

Almost a quarter of entering public-school teachers leave teaching within their first three years. High attrition would … be particularly problematic if those leaving were the more able teachers. The goal of this paper is estimate the extent … to which there is differential attrition based on teachers' value-added to student achievement. Using data for New York …

the relative likelihood of exit for teachers in the bottom quintile of the quality distribution. Low-performing teachers …

I analyze changes in teacher turnover, hiring, effectiveness, and salaries at traditional public schools after the … opening of a nearby charter school. While I find small effects on turnover overall, difficult to staff schools (low …-income, high-minority share) hired fewer new teachers and experienced small declines in teacher quality. I also find evidence of a …

. The first is a Pay for Percentile system (a rank-order tournament). The second rewards teachers based on multiple … proficiency thresholds. Pay for Percentile can (under certain conditions) induce optimal effort among teachers, but our threshold … system is easier to implement and provides teachers with clearer goals and targets. Both systems improved student test scores …