Many school districts experience difficulties attracting and retaining teachers, and the impending retirement of a … substantial fraction of public school teachers raises the specter of severe shortages in some public schools. Schools in urban … factors that affect the probabilities that teachers switch schools or exit the public schools entirely. The results indicate …

Important policy decisions rest on the relationship between teacher salaries and the quality of teachers, but the … School Project to investigate how shifts in salary schedules affect the composition of teachers within a district. The panel … achievement holds (implausibly) for existing experienced teachers and not for new hires or for probationary teachers …

Considerable controversy surrounds the impact of schools and teachers on the achievement of students. This paper … effects and the impact of specific, measured components of teachers and schools. While schools are seen to have powerful …

salary premiums for teachers …

women's access to high-skill occupations outside teaching and to salary premiums for teachers …

instruction depends crucially on whether it is the more productive teachers who are more likely to depart. The absence of direct … measures of productivity typically hinders efforts to measure the effect of turnover on worker quality. In the case of teachers …, however, the availability of matched panel data of students and teachers, enables the isolation of the contributions of …

. We also find that good teachers tend to be effective with all student ability levels but that there is a positive value … of matching students and teachers by race. In the second part of the analysis, we show that teachers staying in our … introduction of more first year teachers. Finally, there is little or no evidence that districts that offer higher salaries and …

consideration of the derived demand for teachers that comes from their impact on economic outcomes. Alternative valuation methods … with larger class sizes. Alternatively, replacing the bottom 5-8 percent of teachers with average teachers could move the U …

women's access to high-skill occupations outside teaching and to salary premiums for teachers …

that most work shows higher attrition for less effective teachers. This raises concerns that confounding factors bias … productivity loss following the reallocation of some incumbent teachers to different grades …