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Risky Business? An Analysis Of Teacher Characteristics And Compensation Preferences, Daniel Henry Bowen
Risky Business? An Analysis Of Teacher Characteristics And Compensation Preferences, Daniel Henry Bowen
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Teacher quality has a significant impact on both student learning gains and later life outcomes. With this is mind, policymakers implement reforms to attract and retain more effective educators. A major obstacle for designing these policies is that the ingredients for training, as well as initially identifying, effective teachers remain largely a mystery. However, there are strong theoretical arguments for certain education policy reforms producing improvements in the quality of the teacher workforce. One increasingly popular example is performance-based pay. Performance pay has the potential to better align teachers' incentives to produce increases in student achievement. Paying teachers based on …