different race is 20% lower for students. Looking at more broad measures of urban mobility, we find that students spend more …. Finally, we find correlational evidence that neighborhoods with more geographic mobility today also had more intergenerational … income mobility in the past. We hope future work will more rigorously test the hypothesis that different geographic mobility …

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 …

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 develop and estimate a joint model of the education and teacher-expectation production functions that identifies … both the distribution of biases in teacher expectations and the impact of those biases on student outcomes via self … educational expectations for each student. Identification of causal effects exploits teacher disagreements about the same student …

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

fire) bad ones. The leading method for assessing teacher quality is "value added" modeling (VAM), which decomposes students …' test scores into components attributed to student heterogeneity and to teacher quality. Implicit in the VAM approach are …

to attract strong candidates, while others argue that investing in high quality teacher preparation is the most promising …

teachers with strong academic backgrounds in the Teaching Fellows program and Teach for America. The improvements in teacher … effect of teacher attributes using a value-added model, the analyses in this paper predict that observable qualifications of …, about half the difference between being taught by a first year teacher and a more experienced teacher. If limited to …