Do financial incentives help low-performing schools attract and keep academically talented teachers? Evidence from California
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11680489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Steele (0000-0002-0124-5363, RAND Corporation, corresponding author), Jennifer L Steele (0000-0002-6442-3948), Richard J Murnane (0000-0002-2843-8974, Harvard University), John B Willett (0000-0001-7183-350X, Harvard University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 451-478 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0276-8739 • E-ISSN: 1520-6688 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/pam.20505 |
| OpenAlex | W2085680304 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 13 |
This study capitalizes on a natural experiment that occurred in California between 2000 and 2002. In those years, the state offered a competitively allocated $20,000 incentive called the Governor's Teaching Fellowship (GTF) aimed at attracting academically talented, novice teachers to low-performing schools and retaining them in those schools for at least four years. Taking advantage of data on the career histories of 27,106 individuals who pursued California teaching licenses between 1998 and 2003, we use an instrumental variable strategy to estimate the unbiased impact of the GTF on the decisions of recipients to begin working in low-performing schools within 2 years after licensure program enrollment. We estimate that GTF recipients would have been less likely to teach in low-performing schools than observably similar counterparts had the GTF not existed, but that acquiring a GTF increased their probability of doing so by 28 percentage points. Examining retention patterns, we find that 75 percent of both GTF recipients and nonrecipients who began working in low-performing schools remained in such schools for at least four years. © 2010 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Business · Economics · Governor · Incentive · Incentive program · Instrumental variable · Licensure · Medical education · Natural experiment · Engineering · Higher Education Research Studies · Innovations in Educational Methods · Medicine · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Finance
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| Unique citing works | 26 |
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| Citations per year | 1,63 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |