of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

initially motivate this strategy in the context of teacher quality, but then generalize the model to consider educational … interventions more generally. Using administrative data that links students and teachers, we construct measures of teacher … effectiveness and then estimate the persistence of these teacher value-added measures on student test scores. We find that teacher …

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 …

distortions, with teacher reallocations playing a secondary role …

Recent proposals would strengthen the dependence of teacher pay and retention on performance, in order to attract those … who will be effective teachers and repel those who will not. I model the teacher labor market, incorporating dynamic self … the evaluation of alternative teacher contracts. Typical bonus policies have very small effects on selection. Firing …