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Monetary Returns to Academic Ability in the Public Teacher Labor Market
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Player, Daniel – Economics of Education Review, 2009
Previous research has established the returns to academic ability in the general labor market, and this paper investigates such returns in the teacher labor market. Using a nationally representative sample of public school teachers, I find that teachers who graduate from the most selective undergraduate institutions have salaries that are between…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Academic Achievement, Labor Market, Academic Ability