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I analyze changes in teacher turnover, hiring, effectiveness, and salaries at traditional public schools after the opening of a nearby charter school. While I find small effects on turnover overall, difficult to staff schools (low-income, high-minority share) hired fewer new teachers and...
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School closings displace thousands of teachers in the US every year. This paper explores how 3rd to 5th grade teachers in North Carolina respond to this labor market shock. After documenting that declining enrollment is a key driver of school closings in our study, we find that while most...
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While it is widely established that higher wages attract more productive individuals into teaching, it is unclear if …. Using teachers' predicted relative wages, calculated using a novel method of estimating teachers' outside option, we provide … evidence that teachers do respond to higher wages and this improves pupil outcomes. Consistent with the predictions of the …
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I conduct a discrete-choice experiment with responses linked to administrative teacher and student records to examine teacher preferences for compensation structure and working conditions. I calculate willingness-to-pay for a rich set of work attributes. High-performing teachers have similar...
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