Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208121 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-906
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
We analyze the effects on teacher retention and between school mobility of a program that rewards excellence in pedagogical practice in Chile. Teachers apply voluntarily for the award and those who succeed on a set of assessments receive a 6 percent annual wage increase for up to 10 years. We use a sharp regression discontinuity design to identify the causal effect of receiving the award. Using administrative data over several cohorts of applicants, our estimates indicate that locally the award does not alter transitions out of the school system. This suggests that around the threshold the skills rewarded by the program are not strongly correlated with the value of the teachers' outside option. We observe, however, an increase in mobility within the school system among teachers that receive the award. These mobility patterns are consistent with the award providing a signal of teacher ability.
Subjects: 
Employee turnover rates
Public sector compensation
Teachers
JEL: 
I21
J45
J63
M52
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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