accounted for by over-subscribed urban schools' embrace of the No Excuses approach to education. …

Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by … replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower-cost newer teachers. Combined with the aging of the teacher workforce, these …-scale teacher retirements on student achievement. We find the program did not reduce test scores; likely, it increased them, with …

this setting as well is the release of both school and teacher-level value-added data, which allows us to examine how … find that neither school nor teacher value-added scores are capitalized into home prices. Our results suggest that, despite …

sources of noncompliance. This research design arises in many applications in education when access to oversubscribed programs …

In November of 2007, the New York City Department of Education assigned elementary and middle schools a letter grade (A …

employee evaluation in the presence of imperfect information. First, objective teacher performance estimates based on student …