students' lifetime income by more than $250,000 for the average class- room in our sample. We conclude that good teachers …Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has …' impacts on student achievement and (2) whether high-VA teachers improve students' long-term outcomes. We address these two …

I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …

access to the lessons increased students' math achievement by 0.06 of a standard deviation, but providing teachers with … online access to the lessons along with supports to promote their use increased students' math achievement by 0.09 of a …

Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains … within-teacher variation, we further show that a teacher's students have larger achievement gains in math and reading when …

improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that … the present value of students' lifetime income by approximately $250,000 per classroom …Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has …

Economic and Social Problems," that enrolled 400 students, achieved nearly a 50-50 gender balance, and was among the highest … differs from that taken in traditional courses by showing how canonical topics - income inequality, tax incidence, and adverse … selection - are taught differently. Then, drawing upon students' comments and prior research on effective teaching practices, we …

example, children whose parents are in the top 1% of the income distribution are 77 times more likely to attend an Ivy League … college than those whose parents are in the bottom income quintile. Second, children from low- and high-income families have … college students from 1999-2013. We document four results. First, access to colleges varies greatly by parent income. For …

colleges that students attend, the three key factors that give children from high-income families an admissions advantage are …. Could such colleges -- which currently have many more students from high-income families than low-income families … due to higher admissions rates for students with comparable test scores from high-income families; the remaining third is …