Determinants of the Compensation and Mobility of School Superintendents

Ronald Ehrenberg, Richard P. Chaykowski and Randy A. Ehrenberg

ILR Review, 1988, vol. 41, issue 3, 386-401

Abstract: Analyzing 1978–83 panel data from more than 700 New York State school districts, the authors find evidence that school superintendents were rewarded, both by higher salary increases and by enhanced opportunities to move to better-paying jobs, for having low school tax rates and high educational achievement within their districts, relative to the values of those variables in comparable school districts in the state. The rewards were, however, quite small. The analysis also suggests that the superintendents themselves did not significantly influence either school tax rates or educational test scores in their districts.

Date: 1988
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