. Prior research on teacher transfers uses career history data, identifying the school in which a teacher teaches in each year …. When this data is used to see which teachers transfer, it is unclear the extent to which the patterns are driven by teacher …-to-transfer data to examine separately which teachers apply for transfer and which get hired and, in so doing, differentiates teacher …

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 … the own-teacher effect, results that suggest peer learning …

know little about its effects on teacher and student outcomes. I study the impact of mentoring in New York City, which … teacher and student outcomes and measures of mentoring quality, such as hours of mentoring received and the characteristics of … regarding the impact of mentors on their success in the classroom, but weaker evidence of effects on teacher absences, retention …

analyze the importance of teacher quality at the postsecondary level. Instructors are matched to both objective and subjective … characteristics of teacher quality to estimate the impact of rank, salary, and perceived effectiveness on grade, dropout and subject … added and the variance of these effects to determine the extent to which any teacher difference matters to short …

alternatively certified teachers in the New York City public schools. On average, the certification status of a teacher has at most … persistent differences in teacher effectiveness. This evidence suggests that classroom performance during the first two years …, rather than certification status, is a more reliable indicator of a teacher's future effectiveness. We also evaluate turnover …

likely to have children as teenagers. Replacing a teacher whose VA is in the bottom 5% with an average teacher would increase …

Some education policymakers focus on bringing down pupil-teacher ratios. Others argue that resources will have limited … impact without systematic reforms to education governance, teacher incentives, and pedagogy. We examine a program under which … Kenyan Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) at randomly selected schools were funded to hire an additional teacher on an annual …