Examining the Link between Teacher Wages and Student Outcomes: The Importance of Alternative Labor Market Opportunities and Non-Pecuniary Variation

By Susanna Loeb, Marianne E. Page. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2000

336 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f468c3b9206feda80d40b95e102d10f2e9b2e720

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Education

Citations in the corpus

Teacher Professionalism and Professional Development Practices in South Sulawesi, Indonesia (2014, result): “This is in line with some evidences that higher salaries and incentives influence the quality of teachers (Wilson, 2009; Figlio, 1997; Loeb & Page, 2000; and Ferguson, 1991).”
An exploratory study of teachers’ subjective wellbeing: understanding the links between teachers’ income satisfaction, altruism, self-efficacy and work satisfaction (2020, neutral): “Other studies, however, reported that raising teachers’ salaries had failed to improve either the size or the quality of the teaching workforce (De Ree, Muralidharan, Pradhan, & Rogers, 2015; Goldhaber, 2001; Hanushek, 2006; Loeb & Page, 2000).”
The Economic Payoff to Investing in Educational Justice (2009, background): “The teacher salary increase study by Loeb and Page (2000) estimated the effects of raising teacher salaries on graduation rates using state data with a 10-year time lag for assessing the impact of higher salaries on graduation rates.”
Seeking Equity in the Education of California's English Learners (2004, background): “In fact, recent research suggests that working conditions influence teachers’ decisions about where to teach more than salaries (Hanushek, Kain, & Rivkin, 2001; Loeb & Page, 2000).”
Teacher turnover and non-pecuniary factors (2003, background): “…factors and opportunity costs have been found to be important determinants of teacher sorting and hence the quality of teachers in recent studies by Loeb and Page (2000), Hanushek, Kain, and Rivkin (2004), Lankford, Loeb, and Wyckoff (2002) and Boyd, Lankford, Loeb, and Wyckoff (2003).”
Funding Disparities and the Inequitable Distribution of Teachers: Evaluating Sources and Solutions. (2012, background): “Similarly, looking across several decades of data, Loeb and Page (2000) found that student educational attainment increased most in states and districts that increased their wages.”
Can Good Principals Keep Teachers in Disadvantaged Schools? Linking Principal Effectiveness to Teacher Satisfaction and Turnover in Hard-to-Staff Environments (2011, background): “Teachers’ work decisions also consider employment opportunities outside the school, which is a function of local labor market conditions (Loeb & Page, 2000).”
School finance, spatial income segregation, and the nature of communities (2003, background): “For example, even if all schools are 6 See, for example, Loeb and Page [14] for evidence of the importance of this effect.”
What Can Education Learn from the Arts about the Practice of Education? (2004, background): “…itself to this design: randomly assigning teachers to different salaries, though scientifically attractive, will most likely be practically infeasible (see Loeb & Page, 2000).21 In other cases, the external validity of a randomized field trial may be low relative to other designs (Cronbach, 1982).”