This paper estimates the impact of college teaching on students' academic achievement and labor market outcomes using … of students to teachers in a fixed sequence of compulsory courses.We find that good teaching matters more for the labor … best students are also the ones who boost their earnings the most. On the contrary, for low ability students the academic …

This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students' evaluations for the same teachers using … in follow-on coursework of students who are randomly assigned to teachers in each of their compulsory courses. We find … material, teachers still matter substantially. The average difference in subsequent performance between students who were …