Do Alternative Opportunities Matter? The Role of Female Labor Markets in the Decline of Teacher Quality

By Marigee Bacolod. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007

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Early Career Outcomes for the “Best and the Brightest” (2015, background): “An emphasis on recruiting more of the most academically proficient young minds into teaching is well motivated by studies finding lower achievement levels among those who subsequently enter teaching than in comparable professions (Bacolod, 2007; Corcoran et al., 2002; Gitomer et al., 1999).”
The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality. Working Paper 56. (2010, background): “19 Hanushek and Pace (1995), Corcoran, Evans, and Schwab (2002), Bacolod (2007).”
The Nature and Predictors of Elementary Teachers' Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching. (2010, result): “Another possibility is that the trend illustrated in Table 7 results from a cohort effect; recent work (Bacolod, 2007; Corcoran, 2007) has demonstrated changes in the cognitive skills of entering teachers.”
How does your kindergarten classroom affect your earnings? Evidence from Project Star. (2010, background): “Equation (7) shows that ∆scn is a (noisy) observable measure of class quality zcn.”