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Title: New Evidence on Teacher Pay

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Publication Year: 2021

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Abstract: I document new and robust empirical evidence of earnings differences between teachers and non-teachers. First, I employ three complementary approaches that were not considered previously to alleviate pay differentials related to individual or job characteristics. These three approaches provide unifying estimates that turn an earnings penalty between female teachers and non-teachers of around 10%, based on a standard approach in the literature, into an earnings premium on the order of 5% to 10%. Likewise, estimates based on these approaches erase up to two-thirds of the earnings gap between male teachers and non-teachers. Second, going beyond the traditional focus on the mean, I decompose the pay gap across the entire earnings distribution. Estimates show that while teachers have a substantial earnings premium at the bottom of the distribution, they also have a large earnings penalty at the top.

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Authors: Regmi, Krishna

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Institution: Kennesaw State University

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Poverty and Welfare

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