Productivity returns to experience in the teacher labor market: Methodological challenges and new evidence on long-term career improvement

Papay, John P.; Kraft, Matthew A.

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Productivity returns to experience in the teacher labor market: Methodological challenges and new evidence on long-term career improvement

Papay, John P., Kraft, Matthew A.·2015·Journal of Public Economics

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Experience on the job is a consistent source of differences in teacher performance.
“One seemingly consistent source of differences in teacher performance is experience on the job (Rockoff 2004, Harris and Sass 2011, Papay and Kraft 2015).”
From Learning Job Skills from Colleagues at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment Using Teacher Performance Data (2020) · cites this paper as Papay and Kraft 2015
The 0.12 standard deviation gain is at least as large as the gap in performance between a novice and a teacher with five to ten years of experience.
“A gain of 0.12σ is also at least as large as the difference in performance between a novice teacher and a 5 to 10 year veteran (Rockoff 2004, Papay and Kraft 2015).”
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Authors: Papay, J. P., & Kraft, M. A.
Affiliations: Brown University (US)
Corresponding author: Papay, John P.
ORCID: Kraft, Matthew A.
Venue: Journal of Public Economics
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2015-10
Volume: 130
Pages: 105-119
ISSN: 0047-2727 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.02.008
OpenAlex: W1978921279
Cited by: 370
References: 45
Citations by year: 2026: 22 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 44 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 33 · 2019: 39 · 2018: 50 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 26 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 3
FWCI: 178.28
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Journal of Public Economics (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Professional Development and Motivation
Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Keywords: teacher productivity, returns to experience, teacher labor market, teacher career advancement, identification assumptions, human capital accumulation, teacher turnover

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