skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others …. These results imply that the scope to improve teachers' skills varies between countries and that policy makers should take … the shape of the skills distribution into account when designing interventions in order to most efficiently raise teachers …

We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and … gains from reallocating teachers within a district. Using an estimated equilibrium model of the teacher labor market, we … find that achieving most of these gains requires directly affecting teachers' preferences over schools. In contrast …

with cognitive skills than with quantitative measures of human capital, such as years of schooling. Chapter 3 investigates …

-designed performance related pay schemes. We find that schools in labor markets with better outside options for teachers saw relatively … higher increases in teacher pay. Schools in these areas relatively increase their spending on teachers, have higher teacher … resources, by preventing such schools from retaining their teachers. …

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 … salary structure, retirement benefits, performance pay, class size, and time-to-tenure. (2) Highly rated teachers have …

The extensive sorting of more talented teachers into the most advantaged schools contributes to the wide socioeconomic … program in the region that provides monetary incentives to talented teachers with an additional bonus if they work in … estimate the causal impact of winning the award on the school choice decisions of talented teachers. By exploiting the fact …