attributes. High-performing teachers have similar preferences to other teachers, but they have stronger preferences for …. Restructuring compensation can increase both teacher welfare and student achievement. …

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 …

Improving schools depends on attracting talented teachers and fostering retention, both made possible by appealing to … attributes including compensation structure, working conditions, and contract type. Highly rated teachers have stronger …

attributes. High-performing teachers have similar preferences to other teachers, but they have stronger preferences for …. Restructuring compensation can increase both teacher welfare and student achievement …

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 …

, maximizing teacher retention, and maximizing student achievement. Under each objective, schools underutilize salary and … teachers usually have the same preferences as their peers, but they have stronger preferences for performance pay. I use the … welfare and student achievement …

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 … teaching is largest for the highest value-added and most experienced teachers. It is also twice as large for black teachers …

Compensation of most US public school teachers is rigid and solely based on seniority. This paper studies a 2011 reform …, some districts switched to flexible compensation and started paying high-quality teachers more. Teacher quality increased …

-added estimators. Using simulated data, we examine how well the estimators can rank teachers and avoid misclassification errors under a … variety of assignment scenarios of teachers to students. We find that growth percentile measures perform worse than value … teachers is nonrandom. In addition, using actual data from a large diverse anonymous state, we find evidence that growth …

finds that the stability over time of teacher value-added estimates can depend on the previous achievement level of a … teacher value-added estimates are typically 25% to more than 50% larger for teachers serving initially higher performing … students compared to teachers with initially lower performing students. In addition, some differences are detected even when …