Do financial incentives help low-performing schools attract and keep academically talented teachers? Evidence from California

Improving low-performing high schools: searching for evidence of promise.

Noting that many of the nation's high schools are beset with major problems, such as low student reading and math achievement, high dropout rates, and an inadequate supply of effective teachers, Steve Fleischman and Jessica Heppen survey a range of strategies that educators have used to improve low-performing high schools. The authors begin by showing how the standards-based school reform movem...

Explaining the Short Careers of High-Achieving Teachers in Schools with Low-Performing Students

Low-achieving students often are taught by the least-qualified teachers. These disparities begin when teachers take their first jobs, and in urban areas they are worsened by teachers' subsequent decisions to transfer and quit. Such quits and transfers increase disparities in at least two ways. First, more qualified teachers are substantially more likely to leave schools having the lowest-achiev...

Air Pollution and Academic Performance: Evidence from California Schools

Would higher salaries keep teachers in high-poverty schools? Evidence from a policy intervention in North Carolina

For a three-year time period beginning in 2001, North Carolina awarded an annual bonus of $1800 to certified math, science and special education teachers working in public secondary schools with either high-poverty rates or low test scores. Using longitudinal data on teachers, we estimate hazard models that identify the impact of this differential pay by comparing turnover patterns before and a...

Do Financial Incentives Make a Difference?

Forsberg, E. 2001. Do financial incentives make a difference? A comparative study of the effects of performance-based reimbursement in Swedish health care. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1077. 54 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-554-5123-3. Financial incentives have become important in health care all over the world. This thesis...