This paper estimates the effects of school accountability on year-to-year teacher mobility in Chile. An accountability …-performance ranking was based on the school’s relative position on a set of variables and their corresponding thresholds, we use a … teachers can move to other schools, as we did not find any effect on the likelihood of teachers leaving the school system. The …

accountability system's ranking of schools based on performance measures, and of a unique school level expenditure data set, to make … causal estimates of the effect of being ranked as "low-performing" on school spending decisions. The results indicate that …

This paper examines the impact of vouchers in general and voucher design in particular on public school performance. It … affect public school incentives differently and induce different responses from them. It analyzes two voucher programs in the … improvement will exceed that under the Milwaukee-type program. Using school-level scores from Florida and Wisconsin and a …