Teacher value-added (VA) measures how teachers improve their students' contemporaneous test scores. Many teachers … considers a new VA measure -- 'long-run VA' -- that captures teachers' contributions that persist by replacing contemporaneous … test scores with subsequent test scores in VA estimation. We find that students assigned to high long-run VA teachers fare …

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 … New York City, we apply commonly estimated value-added models to an outcome teachers cannot plausibly affect: student …

school in order to avoid the negative attention they receive when their students perform poorly on primary leaving exams. We … conducted an experiment in rural Uganda that sought to reduce dropout rates in grade six and seven by rewarding teachers for the … performance of each of their students. Teachers responded to this Pay for Percentile (PFP) incentive system in ways that raised …

a widely-discussed policy to release teachers at the bottom of the value-added distribution, comparing predicted test …

Nearly 4 in 10 children report experiencing maltreatment by adulthood. Early detection mitigates maltreatment …: educators in school settings. Administrative data on reports of child maltreatment across the U.S. over a 14-year period allows … us to use two different regression discontinuity methods, one based on school-entry laws and one on school calendars …

these challenges with new administrative data on teachers' assignments and their students' outcomes, and quasi- random …

This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results. First … with both independent measures of teaching practice, as well as school productivity measured by student value added. Fourth …, private school teacher pay is positively correlated with teacher effectiveness, and better-managed private schools are more …

likely to move. Using microdata from the universe of Florida public school teachers, we find strong evidence that …This paper presents the first causal evidence on the effects of school accountability systems on teacher labor markets …. We exploit a 2002 change in Florida's school accountability system that exogenously shocked some schools to higher …