Bryson, Alex;
Corsini, Lorenzo;
Martelli, Irene;
(2022)
Teacher allocation and school performance in Italy.
Labour
10.1111/labr.12234.
(In press).
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Abstract
Italy's secondary school system faced budget cuts, which limit availability of new permanent job slots for teachers. The allocation of these slots favours teachers with more seniority such that the age distribution of teachers across schools reflects older teachers' preferences for being close to urban centres. Using schools' distance from main urban centres and population size in the school's vicinity to instrument for non-random exposure of schools to older teachers, we show older teachers are detrimental to pupil attainment. The effect is large: a 6-year increase in the age of teachers leads to a one standard deviation reduction in the graduation mark.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Teacher allocation and school performance in Italy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/labr.12234 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/labr.12234 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Authors. LABOUR published by Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10156148 |
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