more than one school. Yet, little is known about the impact of multiple school jobs on teachers' productivity. This paper … one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … period of 7 years and exploit within teacher-school-grade variation in the number of school jobs over time. We found …

In low-income countries, primary school students often fall far below grade level and primary dropout rates remain high …. Further, in some countries, educators encourage their weaker students to drop out before reaching the end of primary school …. These educators hope to avoid the negative attention that authorities direct to a school when its students perform poorly on …