ability distribution drive the impact of peer quality on students‟ achievements. To do so, we use census data for four cohorts … of pupils taking their age-14 national tests, and measure students‟ ability by their prior achievements at age-11. We …

Growing concerns over the achievement of U.S. students have led to proposals to reward good teachers and penalize (or … fire) bad ones. The leading method for assessing teacher quality is "value added" modeling (VAM), which decomposes students … strong assumptions about the nature of the educational production function and the assignment of students to classrooms. In …

schools, students, and their families with our own survey conducted in 2000 regarding the use of teacher incentives. This …

Uniform use in public schools is rising, but we know little about how they affect students. Using a unique dataset from …

Students receive abundant information about their educational performance, but how this information affects future …-mandated standardized tests. On these tests, students receive a score and a label that summarizes their performance. Using a regression …-discontinuity design, we find persistent effects of earning a more positive label on the college-going decisions of urban, low-income …

-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …