Year: 2012
Type: report
Abstract: Recent proposals would strengthen the dependence of teacher pay and retention on performance, in order to attract those who will be effective teachers and repel those who will not.I model the teacher labor market, incorporating dynamic self-selection, noisy performance measurement, and Bayesian learning.Simulations indicate that labor market interactions are important to the evaluation of alternative teacher contracts.Typical bonus policies have very small effects on selection.Firing policies can have larger effects, if accompanied by substantial salary increases.However, misalignment between productivity and measured performance nearly eliminates the benefits while preserving most of the costs.
DOI: 10.3386/w18419
Author: Jesse Rothstein
Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3125216654