Duchini, Emma; Lavy, Victor; Machin, Stephen; Telhaj, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Low-performing, high-poverty, public schools notoriously struggle to attract and retain good teachers. This paper …-performing schools, while funding remains public. Exploiting the staggered expansion of English Sponsor-led academies since the early …, on average, better paid, and more likely to come from outstanding schools. The takeover also induces teacher sorting …