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Dan Player

Associate Professor of Public Policy, UVA

Background

Dan Player is an associate professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. His research focuses on issues in education policy, examining questions such as how teacher ability is recognized and rewarded in schools, factors that predict teacher turnover, and how teachers respond to working conditions.

Publications

Dan Player

  • Research Reports    

Returns to Skill and Teacher Wage Premiums: What Can We Learn By Comparing the Teacher and Private Sector Labor Markets?

Dan Goldhaber, Michael DeArmond, Albert Liu, Dan Player

This paper offers empirical evidence on the size of incentives that might be needed to make teaching a relatively more attractive occupation for people with technical skills or high academic aptitude.

  • Research Reports    

Are Public Schools Losing Their Best? Assessing the Career Transitions of Teachers and Their Implications for the Quality of the Teacher Workforce

Dan Goldhaber, Betheny Gross, Dan Player

This paper examines attrition and mobility of early-career teachers in North Carolina public schools using teacher value-added measures.

  • Research Reports    

Teacher Labor Markets and the Perils of Using Hedonics to Estimate Compensating Differentials in the Public Sector

Dan Goldhaber, Dan Player, Kate Destler

Policymakers and researchers alike have expressed concern about a teacher quality gap between schools with affluent student populations and the more disadvantaged ones.

  • Research Reports    

Why Do So Few Public School Districts Use Merit Pay?

Dan Goldhaber, Michael DeArmond, Dan Player, Hyung-Jai Choi

This working paper presents a principal-agent model in the context of public schools to help explain the factors that affect district decisions about merit pay.

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