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 …

the number of parent requests for individual elementary school teachers along with information on teacher attributes … including principal reports of teacher characteristics that are typically unobservable. We find that, on average, parents … a teacher's ability to raise standardized math or reading achievement. These aggregate effects, however, mask striking …

In this paper, we compare subjective principal assessments of teachers to the traditional determinants of teacher … compensation ¡V education and experience ¡V and another potential compensation mechanism -- value-added measures of teacher … achievement significantly better than teacher experience, education or actual compensation, though not as well as value …

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 …

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

from 4 to 8. On average, a one standard deviation improvement in teacher VA in a single grade raises earnings by about 1 …% at age 28. Replacing a teacher whose VA is in the bottom 5% with an average teacher would increase the present value of …