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 …

This paper proposes a new methodology for estimating teacher value-added. Rather than imposing a normality assumption … on unobserved teacher quality (as in the standard empirical Bayes approach), our nonparametric estimator permits the … nonparametric approach in practice using two separate large-scale administrative data sets, we find the estimated teacher value …

variation from the teacher assignment process in Greece. We find significant losses to output, as a one-year increase in time …

, private school teacher pay is positively correlated with teacher effectiveness, and better-managed private schools are more …

This paper presents the first causal evidence on the effects of school accountability systems on teacher labor markets … accountability shocks influence the teacher labor market; specifically, teachers are more likely to leave schools that have been …