TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hoxby,Caroline
TI  - Would School Choice Change the Teaching Profession?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 7866
PY  - 2000
Y2  - August 2000
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7866
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7866.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Caroline M. Hoxby
Department of Economics
Stanford University
Landau Building, 579 Serra Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Tel: 650-725-8719
Fax: 650-725-5702
E-Mail: choxby@stanford.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2001-01-01
AB  - This paper investigates whether schools that face stronger choice-based incentives have greater demand for certain teacher characteristics and (if so) which teacher characteristics. Schools that face choice-based incentives should demand teachers who raise a schools' ability to attract students.  Thus, in the long term, school choice would affect who became (and remained) a teacher if it affected schools' demand for certain teacher characteristics.  Using data on traditional forms of choice (Tiebout choice, choice of private schools) and a new survey of charter school teachers, this paper finds evidence that suggests that school choice would change the teaching profession by demanding teachers with higher quality college education, more math and science skills, and a greater degree of effort and independence.
ER  -