performance-based promotions could be an important tool for raising school quality. …

School closings displace thousands of teachers in the US every year. This paper explores how 3rd to 5th grade teachers … school closings in our study, we find that while most displaced teachers move to new schools in the same district, a … than white teachers. Although the primary goal of school closings is typically to move students out of declining or failing …

-based school system. The model accommodates equilibrium effects on parental sorting across school sectors (public or private), on … the self-selection of individuals into teaching and across school sectors, and on teacher wages in private schools. I use … the estimated model to simulate a reform that is planned to be implemented in Chile in 2023. Tying public school teacher …