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 …

likelihood that a teacher works sick ("presenteeism"), especially during flu season. Taken together, these results suggest that a …

integration affected black teacher employment. Using newly assembled archival data from 781 southern school districts observed …, which approximates the experience of the modal southern district in this period, led to a 31.8% reduction in black teacher … school districts compensated for reduced black teacher employment by employing fewer total teachers and by increasing their …

While there is a substantial literature on the relationship between general teacher characteristics and student … learning, school districts and states often rely on in-service teacher training as a part of school reform efforts. Recent … design. In this paper, we use a regression discontinuity strategy to estimate the effect of teacher training on the math and …

providing improved information to principals about teacher effectiveness and encouraging them to use the information in … personnel decisions affects the composition of teacher turnovers. Our setting is the Houston Independent School District, which … recently implemented a rigorous teacher evaluation system. Prior to the new system, teacher effectiveness was negatively …

This paper extends the traditional test-score value-added model of teacher quality to allow for the possibility that … grades, and on-time grade progression. Teacher effects on these non-test-score outcomes in 9th grade predict effects on high …-score measures of teacher quality, including both test-score and non-test-score measures more than doubles the predictable …

We examine the long-term consequences of teacher discretion in grading of high-stakes tests. Bunching in Swedish math …

schools in Houston, Texas designed to test the potential productivity benefits of teacher specialization in schools. Treatment … strength (based on value-add measures and principal observations). The average impact of teacher specialization on student …

classrooms during the 2014-15 school year, we find no significant impact on reading performance. Teacher survey responses and …