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Examining the link between teacher wages and student outcomes: The importance of alternative labor market opportunities and non-pecuniary variation
Susanna Loeb,Marianne Page +1 more
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This article found no systematic evidence that teacher salaries affect student outcomes, and these studies generally do not account for non-pecuniary job attribu cation, i.e., not all teachers have the same benefits as their non-profitable counterparts.Abstract:
Researchers using cross-sectional data have failed to produce systematic evidence that teacher salaries affect student outcomes. These studies generally do not account for non-pecuniary job attribu...read more
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Scientific Research in Education
Richard J. Shavelson,Lisa Towne +1 more
TL;DR: The Scientific Research in Education (SRE) as mentioned in this paper is a survey of the role of science in education, focusing on the similarities and differences between scientific research in education and scientific inquiry in other fields and disciplines.
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Teacher Recruitment and Retention: A Review of the Recent Empirical Literature
TL;DR: This article reviewed the recent empirical literature on teacher recruitment and retention published in the United States and examined the characteristics of individuals who enter and remain in the teaching profession, characteristics of schools and districts that successfully recruit and retain teachers, and the types of policies that show evidence of efficacy in recruiting and retaining teachers.
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Keeping good teachers: why it matters, what leaders can do
TL;DR: The 1st grade classroom in which I found myself five years ago had some two dozen ancient and tattered books, an incomplete curriculum, and a collection of outdated content standards as discussed by the authors.
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Why Public Schools Lose Teachers
TL;DR: This article found that teacher mobility is much more strongly related to characteristics of the students, particularly race and achievement, than to salary, although salary exerts a modest impact once compensating differentials are taken into account.
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Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable is Weak
TL;DR: In this article, the use of instruments that explain little of the variation in the endogenous explanatory variables can lead to large inconsistencies in the IV estimates even if only a weak relationship exists between the instruments and the error in the structural equation.
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
Eric A. Hanushek,Eric A. Hanushek,Eric A. Hanushek,John F. Kain,Steven G. Rivkin,Steven G. Rivkin +5 more
TL;DR: The authors disentangles the separate factors influencing achievement with special attention given to the role of teacher differences and other aspects of schools, and estimates educational production functions based on models of achievement growth with individual fixed effects.
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The Economics of Schooling: Production and Efficiency in Public Schools.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors point out that public and professional interest in education is likely to be short-lived, doomed to dissipate as frustration over the inability of policy to improve school practice sets in.
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Assessing the Effects of School Resources on Student Performance: An Update
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the available educational production literature, updating previous summaries, and showed that there is not a strong or consistent relationship between student performance and school resources, at least after variations in family inputs are taken into account.
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Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States
David Card,Alan B. Krueger +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that men who were educated in states with higher-quality schools have a higher return to additional years of schooling and higher rates of return are also higher for individuals from states with better-educated teachers and with a higher fraction of female teachers.