We thank Billy Parker, Jessica Cunningham, and Allison Lile for providing us with the data used to compile the Kentucky Public School Teacher Dataset, as well as Gina Amos, Ellen Cronin, and Barrett Ross for patiently answering our questions. Eunsik Chang provided outstanding research assistance. We also thank Priyanka Anand, Angie Acquatella, Laura Arnemann, Nico Bottan, Zarek Brot, Pinka Chatterji, Damian Clarke, Apostolos Davillas, Qingli Fan, Jon Gruber, Barton Hamilton, Chun-Yu Ho, Josh Hyman, Ingo Isphording, Michael Jerison, Michael Kofoed, Ida Lykke Kristiansen, Scott Langford, Pauline Leung, Nicole Maestas, Richard Murphy, Catia Nicodemo, Derek Neal, Sean Nicholson, Matthew Notowidigdo, Zhuan Pei, Grace Phillips, Stefan Pichler, Ludgar Woessmann, and Katie Yewell for excellent comments and discussions of this paper, as well as seminar participants at the 2023 American-European Health Economics Study Group, ASHEcon 2021 and 2023, BEA, Chicago Fed, Clemson, Cornell, Essen Health Conference 2023, iHEA 2021, Mannheim Applied Seminar 2022, Mannheim Taxation Conference 2022, Notre Dame, SOLE 2021, U. Albany, VfS meetings 2022, Workshop in Health Econometrics of the German Health Economics Assoc. 2020, and 5th IZA Workshop on the Economics of Education. We take responsibility for all errors. We received funding from the Notre Dame Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts. Neither we nor our employers have relevant or material financial interests related to the research described in this paper. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Matthew C. Harris
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