Publication: Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
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2014
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Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, and Jonah E. Rockoff. 2014. Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood. American Economic Review 104, no. 9: 2633–2679. doi:10.1257/aer.104.9.2633.
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Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has sparked debate partly because of a lack of evidence on whether high value-added (VA) teachers 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 are more likely to attend college, earn higher salaries, and are less likely to have children as teenagers. Replacing a teacher whose VA is in the bottom 5% with an average teacher would increase the present value of students' lifetime income by approximately $250,000 per classroom.
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