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The long-run effects of teacher collective bargaining

Lovenheim, Michael F.; Willén, Alexander - 2016

This paper presents the first analysis of the effect of teacher collective bargaining on long-run labor market and educational attainment outcomes. Our analysis exploits the different timing across states in the passage of duty-to-bargain laws in a difference-in-difference framework to identify...

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How Do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-Added

Dieterle, Steven - 2013

researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A key concern is the extent to which nonrandom sorting of students to … important to assess the extent to which evidence of sorting can be found in the large administrative data sets used for VAM … estimation. Using a large longitudinal data set from an anonymous state, we find evidence that a nontrivial amount of sorting …

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Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?

Stacy, Brian - 2013

This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...

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Teacher Preferences, Working Conditions, and Compensation Structure

Johnston, Andrew C. - 2020

Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their preferences. There are three main findings: (1) I...

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Teacher Preferences, Working Conditions, and Compensation Structure

Johnston, Andrew C. - 2020

Improving schools depends on attracting talented teachers and fostering retention, both made possible by appealing to worker preferences. I use a discrete-choice experiment to estimate preferences for a comprehensive set of workplace attributes including compensation structure, working...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842229

Oh Mother : The Neglected Impact of School Disruptions

Jaume, David - 2019

Temporary school closures (TSC) represent a major challenge to policymakers across the globe due to their potential impact on instructional time and student achievement. A neglected but equally important question relates to how such closures affect the labor market behavior of parents. This...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Teaching

Jacinto, Alberto - 2019

Parental influences, particularly parents' occupations, may influence individuals' entry into the teaching profession. Importantly, this mechanism may explain the relatively static demographic composition of the teaching force over time. We assess the role of parental influences on occupational...

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The Effect of Teachers' Unions on Student Achievement : Evidence from Wisconsin's Act 10

Baron, E. Jason - 2020

This study examines the short-run impact of a weakening of teachers' unions on student achievement. In 2011, Wisconsin enacted the Budget Repair Bill, or Act 10, which significantly limited the power of teachers' unions in the state by restricting their fundraising abilities and limiting the...

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A Comparison of Growth Percentile and Value-Added Models of Teacher Performance

Guarino, Cassandra M. - 2014

School districts and state departments of education frequently must choose between a variety of methods to estimating teacher quality. This paper examines under what circumstances the decision between estimators of teacher quality is important. We examine estimates derived from growth percentile...

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The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining

Lovenheim, Michael - 2016

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