Wages, teacher recruitment, and student achievement

Hege Marie Gjefsen

Labour Economics, 2020, vol. 65, issue C

Abstract: I exploit a benefit program in disadvantaged schools in the city of Oslo to estimate the effect of increased wages in primary and secondary education. The program’s main content was a wage increase of about 5%. Using a difference-in-differences approach, I study whether the program led to a change the characteristics of newly hired teachers in terms of educational background and academic achievement, and estimate student achievement effects to discuss teacher selection by effectiveness. I find positive effects on the probability of hiring teachers with a master’s degree. There are no changes in other observable characteristics. Improved student achievement indicates positive selection effects also in terms of teacher effectiveness after the reform.

Keywords: Difference-in-differences; Teacher selection; Teacher wages; Teacher recruitment; Teacher effectiveness; Disadvanted schools (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 J3 J4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101848

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