improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that … students assigned to high-VA teachers in primary school are more likely to attend college, earn higher salaries, and are less …

public education. These schools feature a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior … Lynn, a KIPP charter school that is mostly Hispanic and has a high concentration of limited English proficiency (LEP) and …

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 … likely to move. Using microdata from the universe of Florida public school teachers, we find strong evidence that …

opening of a nearby charter school. While I find small effects on turnover overall, difficult to staff schools (low …

the world. This paper describes a school-based randomized trial in over two-hundred New York City public schools designed …

document a substantial variation in the number of applicants per school, with some schools having fewer than five applicants … the school. We show that the demographic characteristics of schools strongly predict the number of applicants to the … school in the expected direction. Interestingly, the geographic location of the school is an extremely strong predictor of …

More than one out of every five principals leaves their school each year. In some cases, these career changes are … longitudinal data from one large urban school district to study the relationship between principal turnover and school outcomes. We … find that principal turnover is, on average, detrimental to school performance. Frequent turnover of school leadership …