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Agency and Choice in Education: Does School Choice Enhance the Work Effort of Teachers?
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Rapp, Geoffrey C. – Education Economics, 2000
Investigates effects of school-choice laws on U.S. teachers' work incentives, using 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey data. Examines whether school system competitiveness works to solve the principal-agent problem in education. Results are mixed, but suggest that one type of choice policy--intradistrict choice--enhances teacher motivation.…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Economics, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education