relative weight that school administrators place on a variety of teacher characteristics. I find evidence that principals do …

. Prompted by this finding, many states and school districts have adopted value-added measures as indicators of teacher job …

school in order to avoid the negative attention they receive when their students perform poorly on primary leaving exams. We … attendance rates two school years later from .56 to .60. These attendance gains were driven primarily by outcomes in treatment …

: 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 …

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 …