TY  - JOUR
AB  - We study personnel flexibility in charter schools by exploring how teacher retention varies with teacher and school quality in Massachusetts. Charters are more likely to lose their highest and lowest value-added teachers. Low performers tend to exit public education, while high performers tend to switch to traditional public schools. To rationalize these findings, we propose a model in which educators with high fixed-costs use charter schools to explore teaching careers before obtaining licenses required for higher paying public sector jobs. The model suggests charter schools create positive externalities for traditional public schools by increasing the average quality of available teachers.
AU  - Bruhn, Jesse
AU  - Imberman, Scott
AU  - Winters, Marcus
DA  - July 2020
DO  - 10.26300/83ff-gd98
PY  - 2020
ST  - Regulatory Arbitrage in Teacher Hiring and Retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools
T2  - EdWorkingPapers.com
TI  - Regulatory Arbitrage in Teacher Hiring and Retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools
UR  - https://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai20-264
ID  - 238
ER  -