PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Dizon-Ross, Rebecca
TI  - How Does School Accountability Affect Teachers?
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.55.1.1015.7438R1
DP  - 2020 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 76--118
VI  - 55
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/1/76.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/1/76.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2020 Jan 01; 55
AB  - Does holding schools accountable for student performance cause good teachers to leave low-performing schools? Using data from New York City, which assigns accountability grades to schools on the basis of student achievement, I perform a regression discontinuity analysis and find evidence of the opposite effect. At the bottom end of the school grade distribution, lower accountability grades decrease teacher turnover and increase joining teachers’ quality. A likely channel is that accountability pressures increase principal effort at lower-graded schools, which teachers value. In contrast, at the top end of the school grade distribution, low accountability grades may negatively impact joining teachers’ quality.