to work in schools with higher achieving students from more advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. Principals often use … schools with many poor or low-achieving students as stepping stones to what they view as more desirable assignments. We use …

teachers resulted in average improved achievement for students in the poorest decile of schools of .03 standard deviations …

outcomes for students. In this paper, we use value-added methods to examine the relationship between a school's effectiveness … systematically recruit more effective teachers; whether they assign teachers to students more effectively; whether they do a better … novice teachers to students in a more equitable fashion. Third, we find that teachers who work in schools that were more …

, while less effective transfers stay in lower-performing schools, likely exacerbating the differences across students in the …

are able to make good decisions about whom to hire, these reforms have the potential to benefit schools and students … (certification exam scores; college competitiveness) are more likely to apply for transfer, while teachers whose students demonstrate …

between children born at the start and end of the academic year. It builds on the previous literature on this topic in England … differences in outcomes between children born in different months that we observe. Specifically, we compare differences in tests … oldest and youngest children in an academic cohort; highlighting that children born at the end of the academic year are at a …