Pulled away or pushed out?: Explaining the decline of teacher aptitude in the United States

To apportion blame for the decline in teacher aptitude, the paper applies the estimated coefficients to the changes in the earnings variables, taking account of the aptitude group sizes. Such computations allow the paper to say how many teachers would have high aptitude if pay compression or pay par...

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Published in:The American economic review 2004-05, Vol.94 (2), p.236-240
Main Authors: Hoxby, Caroline M, Leigh, Andrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aptitude
Aptitudes
Blame
Coefficients
College graduates
Economic models
Economics
Females
Gender equality
Hypotheses
Labor market
Labor markets
Labor unionization
Lehrer
Males
Occupations
Parity
Qualifikation
Skills
State legislation
Teacher Quality
Teachers
Teaching
U.S.A
Unionization
USA
Variable coefficients
Variables
Womens studies
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Summary:To apportion blame for the decline in teacher aptitude, the paper applies the estimated coefficients to the changes in the earnings variables, taking account of the aptitude group sizes. Such computations allow the paper to say how many teachers would have high aptitude if pay compression or pay parity had not changed. The share of teachers in the highest aptitude category fell from 5% to 1%. Of this change, pay compression explains about 80%, pay parity explains about 9%, and the change in mean teacher earnings explains about 1%.
ISSN:0002-8282
1944-7981
DOI:10.1257/0002828041302073