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Chang, Simon; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Salamanca, Nicolás - 2020

We identify the causal effect of teacher qualifications on parents' investments in their children. Exploiting a unique, high-stakes educational setting in which teachers are randomly assigned to classes, we show that parents react to more qualified teachers by increasing their financial...

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How local economic conditions affect school finances, teacher quality, and student achievement : evidence from the Texas shale boom

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Teaching styles and achievement : student and teacher perspectives

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Teacher characteristics and student performance : evidence from random teacher-student assignments in China

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Teacher hiring instruments and teacher value added : evidence from Peru

Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Méndez, Carolina; … - 2020

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Job mobility among high-skilled and low-skilled teachers

Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2014

This paper examines the job mobility of teachers with different skills using matched employer-employee data from Swedish secondary schools. In addition to standard quality measures, I have access to population-wide data on cognitive and non-cognitive assessments of males born in 1951 or later....

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Does the precision and stability of value-added estimates of teacher performance depend on the types of students they serve?

Stacy, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2013

This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...

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