achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district. Using an estimated equilibrium model of the teacher labor market … equilibrium and second-best reasoning in analyzing teacher labor market policies …

Teacher value-added (VA) measures how teachers improve their students' contemporaneous test scores. Many teachers …

Estimates of teacher "value-added" suggest teachers vary substantially in their ability to promote student learning …. Prompted by this finding, many states and school districts have adopted value-added measures as indicators of teacher job … height. We find the standard deviation of teacher effects on height is nearly as large as that for math and reading …

PFP had the same impact on reported teacher effort in schools with and without books. We document several results that are … consistent with the hypothesis that teacher effort and books are complements in education production …

We examine the impact of having a same-race teacher on students' long-run educational attainment. Leveraging random … student-teacher pairings in the Tennessee STAR class-size experiment, we find that black students randomly assigned to a black … teacher in grades K-3 are 5 percentage points (7%) more likely to graduate from high school and 4 percentage points (13%) more …

We study personnel flexibility in charter schools by exploring how teacher retention varies with teacher and school …

employee evaluation in the presence of imperfect information. First, objective teacher performance estimates based on student …

I investigate the importance of the match between teachers and schools for student achievement. I show that teacher … effectiveness increases after a move to a different school, and I estimate teacher-school match effects using a mixed …-effects estimator. Match quality "explains away" a quarter of, and has two-thirds the explanatory power of teacher quality. Match …