Chapter 18 Teacher Quality

Handbook of the Economics of Education

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1051-1078

  Hanushek, Eric A ^a,b,c   Rivkin, Steven G ^b,c,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^d AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

incentives; teacher education; teacher experience; teacher salaries; teacher test scores

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649342382     PISSN: 15740692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0692(06)02018-6     Document Type: Review

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