Do Teachers' Labour Contracts Matter?
研究了意大利小学中，非终身制教师相比终身制教师是否导致学生成绩更低，发现非终身制教师的学生平均成绩低0.18个标准差。
ABSTRACT 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.