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Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has … sparked debate partly because of a lack of evidence on whether high value-added (VA) teachers improve students' long …-term outcomes. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that students assigned to high …