Artikel

Teacher labor markets, school vouchers, and student cognitive achievement: Evidence from Chile

I use administrative and survey data from Chile and a structural model to evaluate teacher policies in a market-based school system. The model accommodates equilibrium effects on parental sorting across school sectors (public or private), on the self-selection of individuals into teaching and across school sectors, and on teacher wages in private schools. I use the estimated model to simulate a reform that is planned to be implemented in Chile in 2023. Tying public school teacher wages to teacher skills and introducing minimum competency requirements for teaching is predicted to increase student test scores by 0.30 standard deviations and decrease the achievement gap between the poorest and richest 25% of students by a third. These impacts are ten times as large as the impact of a flat wage increase in public schools, and over twice as large as the impact of only introducing minimum competency requirements. The key driver of policy outcomes is an improvement in the pool of teachers, amplified by equilibrium effects on teacher wages in private schools. The equilibrium effects are large, accounting for 70% of estimated policy impacts.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Quantitative Economics ; ISSN: 1759-7331 ; Volume: 12 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 173-216 ; New Haven, CT: The Econometric Society

Classification
Wirtschaft
Education and Inequality
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy
Subject
achievement gaps
equilibrium effects
merit pay
parental sorting
rigid pay
teacher entry
Teacher labor markets
teacher sorting

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Tincani, Michela M.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
The Econometric Society
(where)
New Haven, CT
(when)
2021

DOI
doi:10.3982/QE1057
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  • Tincani, Michela M.
  • The Econometric Society

Time of origin

  • 2021

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