Teacher transfers and the disruption of Teacher Staffing in the City of Sao Paulo

Gregory Elacqua and Leonardo Rosa

No 12702, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: This paper analyzes preferences for certain school attributes among in-service teachers. We explore a centralized matching process in the city of Sao Paulo that teachers must use when transferring schools. Because teachers have to list and rank their preferences for schools, we can estimate the desirability of school attributes using a rank-ordered logit model. We show that the schools distance from the teachers home, school average test scores, and teacher composition play a central role in teacher preferences. Furthermore, we show that preferences vary according to teacher characteristics, such as gender, race, age, and academic subject.

Keywords: Teachers; Teacher Assignment; teacher transfers; centralized assignment; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 I25 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-02
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DOI: 10.18235/0004737

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