Teacher quality policy when supply matters

American Economic Review

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 100-130

  Rothstein, Jesse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920564802     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: 19447981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20121242     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Abdulkadiro Aglu, Atila, Joshua D. Angrist, Susan M. Dynarski, Thomas J. Kane, and Parag A. Pathak. 2011. " Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots. " Quarterly Journal of Economics 126 (2): 699-748.
2. Adda, Jerome, Christian Dustmann, Costas Meghir, and Jean-Marc Robin. 2013. " Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 18832.
3. Baker, George P. 1992. "Incentive Contracts and Performance Measurement. " Journal of Politi cal Economy 100 (3): 598-614.
4. Baker, George. 2002. "Distortion and Risk in Optimal Incentive Contracts. " Journal of Human Resources 37 (4): 728-51.
5. Ballou, Dale. 1996. "Do Public Schools Hire the Best Applicants? " Quarterly Journal of Economics 111 (1): 97-133.
6. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 2010. Learning About Teaching: Initial Finding s from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project. Seattle: MET Project.
7. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 2012. Gathering Feedback for Teaching: Combining High-Quality Observations with Student Surveys and Achievement Gains. Seattle: MET Project.
8. Boyd, Donald, Pamela Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff. 2006. " How Changes in Entry Requirements Alter the Teacher Workforce and Affect Student Achievement." Education Finance and Policy 1 (2): 176-216.
9. Boyd, Donald, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff. 2011. " Teacher Layoffs: An Empirical Illustration of Seniority versus Measures of Effectiveness." Education Finance and Policy 6 (3): 439-54.
10. Campbell, Donald T. 1979. "Assessing the Impact of Planned Social Change. " Evaluation and Program Planning 2 (1): 67-90.
11. Carrell, Scott E., and James E. West. 2010. " Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors." Journal of Political Economy 118 (3): 409-32.
12. Chandler, Mi chael Alison. 2007. " Schools Pinched in Hiring." The Washington Post. June 24.
13. Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hilger, Emmanuel Saez, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, and Danny Yagan. 2011. " How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project STAR. " Quarterly Journal of Economics 126 (4): 1593-660.
14. Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, and Jonah E. Rockoff. 2014a. "Measur ing the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates." American Economic Review 104 (9): 2593-632.
15. Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, and Jonah E. Rockoff. 2014b. "Measuring the Impa cts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood." American Economic Review 104 (9): 2633-79.
16. Chingos, Matthew M., and Martin R. West. 2012. "Do More Effective Teachers Earn More Outside the Classroom? " Education Finance and Policy 7 (1): 8-43.
17. Clark, Melissa A., Hanley S. Chiang, Tim Silva, Sheena McConnell, Kathy Sonnenfeld, Anastasia Erbe, and Michael Puma. 2013. The Effectiveness of Secondary Math Teachers from Teach For America and the Teaching Fellows Programs. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation, US Department of Education.
18. C lotfelter, Charles, Elizabeth Glennie, Helen Ladd, and Jacob Vigdor. 2008. " Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina." Journal of Public Economics 92 (5-6): 1352-70.
19. Clotfelter C.T.,H.F. Ladd,J.L. Vigdor. 2007 How and Why do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement?" National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 12828.
20. Corcoran, Sean P., William N. Evans, and Robert M. Schwab. 2004. " Changing Labor-Market Opportunities for Women and the Quality of Teachers, 1957-2000." American Economic Review 94 (2): 230-5.
21. Dee, Thomas, and James Wyckoff. 2013. "Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance: Evidence from IMPACT. " National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 19529.
22. Dolton, Peter, and Wilbert van der Klaauw. 1999. " The Turnover of Teachers: A Competing Risks Explanation." Review of Economics and Statistics 81 (3): 543-50.
23. Duflo, Esther, Rema Hanna, and Stephen P. Ryan. 2012. "Incentives Work: Get ting Teachers to Come to School." American Economic Review 102 (4): 1241-78.
24. Figlio, David N. 2002. "Can Public Schools Buy Better-Qualified Teachers? " Industrial and Labor Relations Review 55 (4): 686-99.
25. Flyer, Fredrick, and Sherwin Rosen. 1997. "The New Economics of Teachers and Education. " Journal of Labor Economics 15 (1): S104-39.
26. Fryer, Roland G. 2013. " Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City Public Schools." Journal of Labor Economics 31 (2): 373-407.
27. Fryer, Roland G., Jr., Steven D. Levitt, John List, and Sally Sadoff. 2012. " Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 18237.
28. Gates, Bill. 2011. "How Teacher Development Could Revolutionize Our Schools. " The Washington Post. February 28.
29. Glazerman, Steven, Hanley Chiang, Alison Wellington, Jill Constantine, and Dan Player. 2011. Impacts of Performance Pay Un der the Teacher Incentive Fund: Study Design Report. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research Report.
30. Glewwe, Paul, Nauman Ilias, and Michael Kremer. 2010. "Teacher Incentives. " American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (3): 205-27.
31. Goldhaber, Dan, Betheny Gross, and Daniel Player. 2011. " Teacher Career Paths, Teacher Quality, and Persistence in the Classroom: Are Public Schools Keeping Their Best?" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 30 (1): 57-87.
32. Goodman, Sarena F., and Lesley J. Turner. 2013. " The Design of Teacher Incentive Pay and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from the New York City Bonus Program." Journal of Labor Economics 31 (2): 409-20.
33. Gordon, Robert, Thomas J. Kane, and Douglas O. Staiger. 2006. Identifying Effective Teachers Using Performance on the Job. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
34. Hanushek, Eric A., and Steven G. Rivkin. 2006. "Teacher Quality. " In Handbook of the Economics of Education. Vol. 2, edited by Eric Hanushek and Finis Welch, 1051-78. Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V.
35. Hess, Rick. 2010. " Missing the POINT: Tomorrow's Big Merit Pay Study Will Tell Us..Nothing." Education Week's Blog: Rick Hess Straight Up. September 20. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rick-hess-straight-up/2010/09/missing-th e-point-tomorrows-big-merit-pay-study-will-tell-us-nothing.html (accessed November 1, 2014
36. Hiatt, Fred. 2009. "How Bill Gates Would Repair Our Schools. " The Washington Post. March 30.
37. Holmström, Bengt, and Paul Milgrom. 1991. " Multitask Principal-Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 7: 24-52.
38. Kane, Thomas J., Daniel F. McCaffr ey, Trey Miller, and Douglas O. Staiger. 2013. Have We Identified Effective Teachers? Validating Measures of Effective Teaching Using Random Assignment. Seattle: MET Project.
39. Kane, Thomas J., Jonah E. Rockoff, and Douglas O. Staiger. 2008. " What Does Certification Tell Us about Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City." Economics of Education Review 27 (6): 615-31.
40. Keane Michael P.,Kenneth I. Wo lpin. 1997 The Career Decisions of Young Men." Journal of Political Economy 105 3, 473-522.
41. Klein, Joel, Michelle Rhee, Peter C. Gorman, Ron Huberman, Carol R. Johnson, Andrés A. Alonso, Tom Boasberg et al. 2010. " How to Fix Our Schools: A Manifesto by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee and Other Education Leaders." The Washington Post. October 10.
42. Krieg, John M. 2006. "Teacher Quality and Attrition. " Economics of Education Review 25 (1): 13-27.
43. Krueger, Alan B. 1999. " Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions." Quarterly Journal of Economics 114 (2): 497-532.
44. Lavy, Victor. 2002. " Evaluating the Effect of Teachers' Group Performance Incentives on Pupil Achievement." Journal of Political Economy 110 (6): 1286-317.
45. Lazear, Edward P. 2000. "Perf ormance Pay and Productivity." American Economic Review 90 (5): 1346-61.
46. Lazear, Edward P. 2003. "Teacher Incentives. " Swedish Economic Policy Review 10 (2): 179-214.
47. Mann ing, Alan. 2005. Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
48. Muralidharan, Karthik, and Venkatesh Sundararaman. 2011. "Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India." Journal of Political Economy 119 (1): 39-77.
49. Murnane, Richard J., and David K. Cohen. 1986. " Merit Pay and the Evaluation Problem: Why Most Merit Pay Plans Fail and a Few Survive." Harvard Educational Review 56 (1): 1-17.
50. Murnane, Richard J., and Randall J. Olsen. 1989. " The Effect of Salaries and Opportunity Costs on Duration in Teaching: Evidence from Michigan." Review of Economics and Statistics 71 (2): 347-52.
51. Neal, Derek, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach. 2010. "Left Behind by Design: Proficiency Counts and Test-Based Accountability. " Review of Economics and Statistics 92 (2): 263-83.
52. Prendergast, Canice. 1999. "The Provision of Incentives in Firms. " Journal of Economic Literature 37 (1): 7-63.
53. Ransom, Michael R., and David P. Sims. 2010. "Estimating the Firm's Labor Supply Curve in a ' New Monopsony' Framework: Schoolteachers in Missouri." Journal of Labor Economics 28 (2): 331-55.
54. Rivkin, Steven G., Eric A. Hanushek, and John F. Kain. 2005. " Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement." Econometrica 73 (2): 417-58.
55. Rockoff, Jonah E., Brian A. Jacob, Thomas J. Kane, and Douglas O. Staiger. 2011. " Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One" Education Finance and Policy 6 (1): 43-74.
56. Rothstein, Jesse. 2010. " Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement." Quarterly Journal of Economics 125 (1): 175-214.
57. Rothstein, Jesse. 2011. Review of 'Learning About Teaching: Initial Findings from the Measures Of Effective Teaching Project'. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center.
58. Rothstein , Jesse. 2012. " Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 18419.
59. Rothstein, Jesse. 2014. "Revisiting the Impacts of Teachers. " Unpublished.
60. Rothstein, Jesse. 2015. " Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters: Dataset." American Economic Review. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20121242.
61. Rothstein, Jesse, and William J. Mathis. 2013. Review of Two Culminating Rep orts from the MET Project. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center.
62. Sass T.R. 2008 The Stability of Value-Added Measures of Teacher Quality and Implications for Teacher Compensation Policy Washington, DC: National C enter for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.
63. Springer, Matthew G., Dale Ballou, Laura Hamilton, Vi-Nhuan Le, J. R. Lockwood, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Matthew Pepper, and Brian M. Stecher. 2010. "Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project On Incentives in Teaching. " Nashville: National Center on Performance Incentives.
64. Staiger, Douglas O., and Jonah E. Rockoff. 2010. "Searching for Effective Teachers with Imperfect Inf ormation." Journal of Economic Perspectives 24 (3): 97-118.
65. Taylor, Eric S., and John H. Tyler. 2012. "The Effect of Evaluation on Teacher Performance. " American Economic Review 102 (7): 3628-51.
66. Tincani, Michela. 2011. " Teacher Labor Markets, School Vouchers and Student Cognitive Achievement: Evidence from Chile." Unpublished.
67. von Wachter, Till, Jae Song, and Joyce Manchester. 2009. " Long-Term Earnings Losses Due to Mass Layoffs During the 1982 Recession: An Analysis Using U.S. Administrative Data from 1974 to 2004." Unpublished.
68. West, Martin, and Matthew Chingos. 2009. "Teacher Effectiveness, Mobility, and Attrition in Florida. " In Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K12 Education, edited by Matthew G. Springer, 251-72. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
69. Wilson, Steven F. 2009. "Success at Scale in Charter Schooling. " American Enterprise Institute Education Outlook 3.
70. Winters, Marcus A., and Joshua M. Cowen. 2013a. "Who Would Sta y, Who Would Be Dismissed? An Empirical Consideration of Value-Added Teacher Retention Policies." Educational Researcher 42 (6): 330-7.
71. Winters, Marcus A., and Joshua M. Cowen. 2013b. "Would a Value-Added Syst em of Retention Improve the Distribution of Teacher Quality? A Simulation of Alternative Policies." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 32 (3): 634-54.
72. Wiswall, Matthew. 2007. "Licensing and Occupational Sorting in the Market for Teachers." Unpublished.