Teacher turnover: effects, mechanisms and organisational responses

Stephen Gibbons, Vincenzo Scrutinio and Shqiponja Telhaj

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Abstract: This paper contributes to the understanding of the causal relationship between teacher turnover and student performance. We extend this research by examining the mechanisms through which turnover affects student learning, and by providing evidence on how schools respond to mitigate the disruptive effects of turnover. Using administrative data covering all state-school, age-16 students and their teachers in England, we find that a higher teacher entry rate has a small but significant negative effect on students’ final qualifications from compulsory-age schooling. This is the first study to document that the lack of school-specific human capital in incoming teachers is the main mechanism through which turnover disrupts student performance. We also find evidence that schools mitigate the effects of turnover by assigning new teachers away from high-risk student grades.

Keywords: teachers; turnover; student attainment; schools; UKRI block grant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2021-12-01
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Published in Labour Economics, 1, December, 2021, 73. ISSN: 0927-5371

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