improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that … students assigned to high-VA teachers in primary school are more likely to attend college, earn higher salaries, and are less …

issues by analyzing school district data from grades 3-8 for 2.5 million children linked to tax records on parent …

Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains … when their teachers experience improvements in the observable characteristics of their colleagues. Using within-school and …

mentors. Although assignment of teachers to mentors was non-random, I use instrumental variables and school fixed effects to …, and student achievement. The most consistent finding is that retention within a particular school is higher when a mentor … has previous experience working in that school, suggesting that an important part of mentoring may be the provision of …

Many large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control … to schools in the hiring of teachers, reducing, for example, the importance of seniority. If school hiring authorities …. Prior research on teacher transfers uses career history data, identifying the school in which a teacher teaches in each year …

Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains … when their teachers experience improvements in the observable characteristics of their colleagues. Using within-school and …