Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/38949 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2996
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We examine earnings records for 90,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001-02 and 2006-07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4-8 teachers leaving for other industries, a 1 standard deviation increase in estimated value-added to student achievement is associated with 6-9 percent higher earnings outside of teaching. The relationship between effectiveness and earnings is stronger in other industries than it is for the same teachers while in the classroom, suggesting that existing compensation systems do not account for the higher opportunity wages of effective teachers.
JEL: 
I20
J45
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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