TY - JOUR
T1 - School finance reform
T2 - Do equalized expenditures imply equalized teacher salaries?
AU - Streams, Meg
AU - Butler, J. S.
AU - Cowen, Joshua
AU - Fowles, Jacob
AU - Toma, Eugenia F.
PY - 2011/9
Y1 - 2011/9
N2 - Kentucky is a poor, relatively rural state that contrasts greatly with the relatively urban and wealthy states typically the subject of education studies employing largescale administrative data. For this reason, Kentucky's experience of major school finance and curricular reform is highly salient for understanding teacher labor market dynamics. This study examines the time path of teacher salaries in Appalachian and non-Appalachian Kentucky using a novel teacher-level administrative data set. Our results suggest that the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) provided a salary boost for all Appalachian teachers, resulting in a wage premium for teachers of low and medium experience and equalizing pay across Appalachian and non-Appalachian districts for teachers of high experience. However, we find that Appalachian salaries fell back to the level of non-Appalachian teachers roughly a decade following reform, at which point the pre-KERA remuneration patterns re-emerge.
AB - Kentucky is a poor, relatively rural state that contrasts greatly with the relatively urban and wealthy states typically the subject of education studies employing largescale administrative data. For this reason, Kentucky's experience of major school finance and curricular reform is highly salient for understanding teacher labor market dynamics. This study examines the time path of teacher salaries in Appalachian and non-Appalachian Kentucky using a novel teacher-level administrative data set. Our results suggest that the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) provided a salary boost for all Appalachian teachers, resulting in a wage premium for teachers of low and medium experience and equalizing pay across Appalachian and non-Appalachian districts for teachers of high experience. However, we find that Appalachian salaries fell back to the level of non-Appalachian teachers roughly a decade following reform, at which point the pre-KERA remuneration patterns re-emerge.
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U2 - 10.1162/EDFP_a_00046
DO - 10.1162/EDFP_a_00046
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84858147880
SN - 1557-3060
VL - 6
SP - 508
EP - 536
JO - Education Finance and Policy
JF - Education Finance and Policy
IS - 4
ER -