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ProfessorCarolPropper

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Chair in Economics
 
 
 
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@article{Britton:2016:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.12.004,
author = {Britton, J and Propper, C},
doi = {10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.12.004},
journal = {Journal of Public Economics},
pages = {75--89},
title = {Teacher pay and school productivity: exploiting wage regulation},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.12.004},
volume = {133},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The impact of teacher pay on school productivity is a central concern for governments worldwide, yet evidence is mixed. In this paper we exploit a feature of teacher labour markets to determine the impact of teacher wages. Teacher wages are commonly set in a manner that results in flat wages across heterogeneous labour markets. This creates an exogenous gap between the outside labour market and inside (regulated) wage for teachers. We use the centralized wage regulation of teachers in England to examine the effect of pay on school performance. We use data on over 3000 schools containing around 200,000 teachers who educate around half a million children per year. We find that teachers respond to pay. A ten percent shock to the wage gap between local labour market and teacher wages results in an average loss of around 2 percent in average school performance in the key exams taken at the end of compulsory schooling in England.
AU  - Britton,J
AU  - Propper,C
DO  - 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.12.004
EP  - 89
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 0047-2727
SP  - 75
TI  - Teacher pay and school productivity: exploiting wage regulation
T2  - Journal of Public Economics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.12.004
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/28529
VL  - 133
ER  -
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