Teacher pay and school productivity: Exploiting wage regulation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Britton, Jack; Propper, Carol
• 署名单位: University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Imperial College London; University of Bristol; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.12.004
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 75-89
• 关键词: Teacher pay; School productivity

摘要

The impact of teacher pay on school productivity is a central concern for governments worldwide, yet evidence is mixed. In this paper we exploit a feature of teacher labour markets to determine the impact of teacher wages. Teacher wages are commonly set in a manner that results in flat wages across heterogeneous labour markets. This creates an exogenous gap between the outside labour market and inside (regulated) wage for teachers. We use the centralised wage regulation of teachers in England to examine the effect of pay on school performance. We use data on over 3000 schools containing around 200,000 teachers who educate around half a million children per year. We find that teachers respond to pay. A ten percent shock to the wage gap between local labour market and teacher wages results in an average loss of around 2% in average school performance in the key exams taken at the end of compulsory schooling in England. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.