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ERIC Number: ED592102
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Aug-4
Pages: 54
Abstractor: As Provided
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Union Reform and Teacher Turnover: Evidence from Wisconsin's Act 10. Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series. PEPG 17-02
Roth, Jonathan
Program on Education Policy and Governance
This paper studies teacher attrition in Wisconsin following Act 10, a policy change which severely weakened teachers' unions and capped wage growth for teachers. I document a sharp increase in turnover after the Act was passed, driven almost entirely by the exit of older teachers, who faced strong incentives to retire before the end of pre-existing collective bargaining agreements. I find that student academic performance increased in grades with teachers who retired following the reform, and I obtain similar results when instrumenting for retirement using the pre-existing age distribution of teachers. Differences in value-added between retirees and their replacements can potentially explain some, but not all, of the observed academic improvements.
Program on Education Policy and Governance. Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Taubman 304, Cambridge, MA 02138. Tel: 617-495-7976; Fax: 617-496-4428; e-mail: pepg@fas.harvard.edu; Web site: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/pepg/research.htm
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Authoring Institution: Harvard University, Program on Education Policy and Governance
Identifiers - Location: Wisconsin
Grant or Contract Numbers: DGE1144152
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