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Do Teachers' Labour Contracts Matter?

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  • Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll
  • Roberto Quaranta

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Previous literature on the effects of tenured and tenure‐track versus non‐tenure‐track professors on student performance at the university level finds mixed results. Our paper is the first to investigate whether student performance at school differs depending on whether tenured/tenure‐track or non‐tenure‐track teachers teach them. We use data on standardised test scores from a representative sample of primary school students in Italy and information on their Italian and mathematics teachers' labour contracts. Controlling for class‐fixed effects, subject‐fixed effects, and teacher characteristics, we find that students taught by non‐tenure‐track teachers exhibit, on average, a 0.18 standard deviation lower performance. Hence, job insecurity among primary school teachers is associated with lower student outcomes.

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  • Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll & Roberto Quaranta, 2026. "Do Teachers' Labour Contracts Matter?," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 88(2), pages 331-342, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:obuest:v:88:y:2026:i:2:p:331-342
    DOI: 10.1111/obes.70014
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    JEL classification:

    • J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
    • H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education

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