Teacher labor markets and the perils of using hedonics to estimate compensating differentials in the public sector

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-17

  Goldhaber, Dan ^a   Destler, Katharine ^a   Player, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational economics; Educational finance; Human capital; Salary wage differentials; Teacher salaries

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN CAPITAL; LABOR MARKET; PUBLIC SECTOR; STUDENT; TEACHING; WORKING CONDITIONS;

EID: 73649096211     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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