Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood / Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah E. Rockoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chetty, Raj.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Friedman, John N.

Rockoff, Jonah E.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19424.

NBER working paper series no. w19424

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.

Summary:

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 who raise students' test scores 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 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.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2013.