Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …

We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and … achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district. Using an estimated equilibrium model of the teacher labor market …, we find that achieving most of these gains requires directly affecting teachers' preferences over schools. In contrast …

Teacher value-added (VA) measures how teachers improve their students' contemporaneous test scores. Many teachers … considers a new VA measure -- 'long-run VA' -- that captures teachers' contributions that persist by replacing contemporaneous … test scores with subsequent test scores in VA estimation. We find that students assigned to high long-run VA teachers fare …

Estimates of teacher "value-added" suggest teachers vary substantially in their ability to promote student learning … New York City, we apply commonly estimated value-added models to an outcome teachers cannot plausibly affect: student …

conducted an experiment in rural Uganda that sought to reduce dropout rates in grade six and seven by rewarding teachers for the … performance of each of their students. Teachers responded to this Pay for Percentile (PFP) incentive system in ways that raised … consistent with the hypothesis that teacher effort and books are complements in education production …

. We envision role model effects as information provision: black teachers provide a crucial signal that leads black … implications generated by the theory, we provide suggestive evidence that role model effects help to explain why black teachers …

quality in Massachusetts. Charters are more likely to lose their highest and lowest value-added teachers. Low performers tend … to exit public education, while high performers tend to switch to traditional public schools. To rationalize these … externalities for traditional public schools by increasing the average quality of available teachers …

The evidence that productivity varies greatly across teachers has given rise to the idea that student achievement data … which school principals were provided with estimates of the performance of individual teachers in raising their students … separation rises for teachers with low performance estimates, and, in line with this change in attrition patterns, student …

Even as research has begun to document that teachers matter, there is less certainty about what attributes of teachers … make the most difference in raising student achievement. Numerous studies have estimated the relationship between teachers … any, differentiate teachers with high impact on student achievement in middle school English Language Arts from those with …