providing improved information to principals about teacher effectiveness and encouraging them to use the information in … personnel decisions affects the composition of teacher turnovers. Our setting is the Houston Independent School District, which … recently implemented a rigorous teacher evaluation system. Prior to the new system, teacher effectiveness was negatively …

In practice, teacher turnover appears to have negative effects on school quality as measured by student performance … evaluating the effects of teacher turnover on student achievement under IMPACT, the unique performance-assessment and incentive …

affect rates of teacher turnover—an important determinant of school quality. We find that male teachers are about 12% more …

It is widely believed that teacher turnover adversely affects the quality of instruction in urban schools serving … estimates of transition differences in teacher effectiveness, the adverse effects of turnover or both. After taking more … extensive steps to account for nonrandom sorting of students into classrooms and endogenous teacher exits and grade …

I analyze changes in teacher turnover, hiring, effectiveness, and salaries at traditional public schools after the …-income, high-minority share) hired fewer new teachers and experienced small declines in teacher quality. I also find evidence of a … demand side response where schools increased teacher compensation to better retain quality teachers. The results are robust …

This paper presents the first causal evidence on the effects of school accountability systems on teacher labor markets … accountability shocks influence the teacher labor market; specifically, teachers are more likely to leave schools that have been …

I investigate the importance of the match between teachers and schools for student achievement. I show that teacher … effectiveness increases after a move to a different school, and I estimate teacher-school match effects using a mixed …-effects estimator. Match quality "explains away" a quarter of, and has two-thirds the explanatory power of teacher quality. Match …

that teacher mobility is much more strongly related to characteristics of the students, particularly race and achievement …