PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sartain, Lauren
AU  - Steinberg, Matthew P.
TI  - Teachers’ Labor Market Responses to Performance Evaluation Reform: Experimental Evidence from Chicago Public Schools
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.51.3.0514-6390R1
DP  - 2016 Aug 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 615--655
VI  - 51
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/51/3/615.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/51/3/615.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2016 Aug 01; 51
AB  - Traditional teacher evaluation systems have come under scrutiny for not identifying, supporting, and, if necessary, removing low-performing teachers from the classroom. Leveraging the experimental rollout of a pilot evaluation system in Chicago, we find that, while there was no main effect of the pilot on teacher exit, the pilot system increased exit for low-rated and nontenured teachers. Furthermore, teachers who exited were lower performing than those who stayed and those who replaced them. These findings suggest that reformed evaluation systems can induce low-performing teachers to exit schools and may also improve the overall quality of the teacher labor force.