The paper investigates the effect of teacher characteristics (experience, level of education attainment and credentials … education degree might drive down student achievement. However, there is a substantial heterogeneity among countries; teacher …

The paper investigates teachers' decisions to leave the profession. First we examine the role of earnings and earnings … has effected exiting decisions of teachers. Using large merged administrative data-sets duration models were estimated …. First binary choice Cox proportional hazard models (leaving teaching profession or not), then competing risk models which …