Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/180450 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11432
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper estimates the effect of exposure to teacher pay-for-performance programs on adult outcomes. We construct a comprehensive data set of schools which have implemented teacher performance pay programs across the United States since 1986, and use our data to calculate the fraction of students by race in each grade and in each state who are affected by a teacher performance pay program in a given year. We then calculate the expected years of exposure for each race-specific birth state-grade cohort in the American Community Survey. Cohorts with more exposure are more likely to graduate from high school and earn higher wages as adults. The positive effect is concentrated in grades 1-3 and on programs that targeted schools with a higher fraction of students who are eligible for free and reduced lunch.
Subjects: 
teacher performance pay
adult outcomes
JEL: 
I24
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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