that teacher mobility is much more strongly related to characteristics of the students, particularly race and achievement …

more closely related to existing policy proposals. In analyses both of teacher mobility and of student performance, teacher … salaries are shown to have a modest impact. Teacher mobility is more affected by characteristics of the students (income, race …Important policy decisions rest on the relationship between teacher salaries and the quality of teachers, but the …

disentangles the separate factors influencing achievement with special attention given to the role of teacher differences and other … effects on achievement differences, these effects appear to derive most importantly from variations in teacher quality. A … lower bound suggests that variations in teacher quality account for at least 7« percent of the total variation in student …

exam score and national exam score. We then define a teacher bias measure at the class level by the difference between boys … teacher bias measure based on multiple classes, and to estimate the effect for later cohorts' performance. We find a very high … correlation of within-teacher gender biases measured in different classes, which reveals high persistency in teachers' gender …

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

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

firms, but this may not hold in teacher labor markets characterized by salary rigidities, barriers to entry, and substantial … is the possibility that teacher turnover adversely affects the quality of instruction in schools serving predominantly …

Much of education policy focuses on improving teacher quality, but most policies lack strong research support. We use … student achievement gains to estimate teacher value-added, our measure of teacher quality. The analysis reveals substantial … variation in the quality of instruction, most of which occurs within rather than between schools. Although teacher quality …

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