Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/147387 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6133
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper examines the effects of student ability on teacher turnover using data from Stockholm high schools and an admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results indicate that a 10-percentile-point increase in student credentials decreases the probability of a separation by up to 10 percentage points. These effects vary across different groups of teachers and are found mainly for mobility between schools rather than out of the profession. Teachers react mostly to direct measures of student ability (grades from compulsory school) rather than to other correlated characteristics (immigrant status, parental income or paternal cognitive skills). Finally, the data do not support the compensating wage differentials hypothesis.
Subjects: 
teacher labor market
student composition
student ability
JEL: 
I20
J40
J60
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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