Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/289964 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-01437
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes preferences for certain school attributes among in-service teachers. We explore a centralized matching process in the city of Sao Paulo that teachers must use when transferring schools. Because teachers have to list and rank their preferences for schools, we can estimate the desirability of school attributes using a rank-ordered logit model. We show that the school's distance from the teacher's home, its average test scores, and teacher composition play a central role in teacher preferences. Furthermore, we document that preferences vary according to teacher characteristics such as gender, race, age, and academic subject.
Subjects: 
teachers
teacher assignment
teacher transfers
centralized assignment,Brazil
JEL: 
I21
I24
I25
I28
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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