@article{5f96860eef8b490f969feebd72a6f13a,
title = "School accountability and teacher mobility",
abstract = "We exploit a 2002 change in Florida's school accountability system, and use regression discontinuity and difference-in-difference approaches, to study the effects of accountability pressure on teacher mobility. While school grading “shocks” do not affect mobility at most parts of the measured school quality distribution, there exists strong evidence that teachers are more likely to leave schools that have received a failing grade. Receipt of an “F” grade translates into differently higher turnover for the best teachers, measured by contributions to student test scores, at a school. These results are robust to a wide range of parametric and nonparametric model specifications.",
keywords = "Administrative data, School accountability, Teacher labor markets, Teacher quality",
author = "Li Feng and David Figlio and Tim Sass",
note = "Funding Information: This is a considerably updated version of a paper with the same name that first appeared as NBER working paper 16070 (June 2010). We are grateful to the U.S. Department of Education (via the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research), National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development for research support and to the Florida Department of Education for providing the data for this analysis. We also wish to thank seminar participants at Indiana, Northwestern, Oregon, Wisconsin, and the Swedish Research Institute for Industrial Economics, as well as conference participants at the American Education Finance Association, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, and Southern Economic Association meetings, for helpful comments. We alone are responsible for any errors in analysis or interpretation. The results reported herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the Florida Department of Education or of our funders. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Elsevier Inc. Copyright: Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1016/j.jue.2017.11.001",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "103",
pages = "1--17",
journal = "Journal of Urban Economics",
issn = "0094-1190",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
}