PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hill, Andrew J.
AU  - Jones, Daniel B.
TI  - The Impacts of Performance Pay on Teacher Effectiveness and Retention
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.55.2.0216.7719R3
DP  - 2020 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 349--385
VI  - 55
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/1/349.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/1/349.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2020 Jan 01; 55
AB  - Teacher performance pay is increasingly common in the United States. We assess the “incentive effects” of performance pay—the change in behavior of teachers present before and after a reform—with a focus on whether male and female teachers respond differently. Evaluating three performance pay programs in North Carolina, we find clear evidence of a gender difference: while male teachers’ value-added remains flat before and after the introduction of performance pay the value-added of female teachers declines. We also document suggestive evidence of a gender difference in retention with men more likely to remain in schools with performance pay.