TY - JOUR T1 - Teachers’ Labor Market Responses to Performance Evaluation Reform: Experimental Evidence from Chicago Public Schools JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 615 LP - 655 DO - 10.3368/jhr.51.3.0514-6390R1 VL - 51 IS - 3 AU - Lauren Sartain AU - Matthew P. Steinberg Y1 - 2016/08/01 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/51/3/615.abstract N2 - 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. ER -