through the school budget channel. In particular, the qualification of teachers is identified as most influential determinant …

Teachers are among the most important school-provided determinants of student success. Effective teachers improve … access to effective teachers. This article reviews some of the key challenges associated with teacher policy confronted by … first challenge is that identifying effective teachers is difficult. Economists use value-added models to estimate teacher …

others, and that there is no significant correlation between turnover and share of minority students. Interestingly, teachers …This paper examines the job mobility of teachers with different skills using matched employer-employee data from … non-cognitive assessments of males born in 1951 or later. The results show that high-quality teachers are less mobile than …

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 …