RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 How Does School Accountability Affect Teachers?
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 76
OP 118
DO 10.3368/jhr.55.1.1015.7438R1
VO 55
IS 1
A1 Rebecca Dizon-Ross
YR 2020
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/1/76.abstract
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.