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TEACHER LOCATION CHOICE AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF QUALITY: EVIDENCE FROM NEW YORK CITY
Author(s) -
BARR JASON
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1093/cep/byi043
Subject(s) - salary , quality (philosophy) , affect (linguistics) , schedule , demographic economics , distribution (mathematics) , teacher quality , school choice , economics , econometrics , business , marketing , psychology , mathematics , management , mathematical analysis , metric (unit) , communication , epistemology , market economy , philosophy
This article studies the distribution of teacher quality measures across the New York City school system. Because teachers are paid along a fixed salary schedule and they have the option to transfer schools, this analysis measures the degree to which environmental factors affect teacher location choice. Both school‐based and neighborhood‐based effects are measured, and both types are significant. Furthermore, this article finds that the location of the school in relation to the suburban borders is an important determinant of teacher location choice. (JEL I29 , J24 , J61 )