Value-added modeling: A review

C Koedel, JE Rockoff - Economics of Education Review, 2015 - Elsevier
This article reviews the literature on teacher value-added. Although value-added models
have been used to measure the contributions of numerous inputs to educational production …

The distribution of teacher quality and implications for policy

EA Hanushek, SG Rivkin - Annu. Rev. Econ., 2012 - annualreviews.org
It has become commonplace to measure teacher quality in terms of teacher value-added.
Operationally, this means evaluating teachers according to the learning gains of students on …

The long-run impacts of same-race teachers

S Gershenson, CMD Hart, J Hyman… - American Economic …, 2022 - aeaweb.org
Leveraging the Tennessee STAR class size experiment, we show that Black students
randomly assigned to at least one Black teacher in grades K–3 are 9 percentage points (13 …

Measuring the impacts of teachers II: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood

R Chetty, JN Friedman, JE Rockoff - American economic review, 2014 - aeaweb.org
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 …

Measuring the impacts of teachers I: Evaluating bias in teacher value-added estimates

R Chetty, JN Friedman, JE Rockoff - American economic review, 2014 - aeaweb.org
Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores (value-added) a good measure of their
quality? One reason this question has sparked debate is disagreement about whether value …

How does your kindergarten classroom affect your earnings? Evidence from Project STAR

R Chetty, JN Friedman, N Hilger, E Saez… - The Quarterly journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Abstract In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly
assigned to classrooms within their schools from kindergarten to third grade. This article …

Achievement gaps in the wake of COVID-19

DH Bailey, GJ Duncan, RJ Murnane… - Educational …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
A survey targeting education researchers conducted in November 2020 provides forecasts
of how much achievement gaps between low-and high-income students in US elementary …

The economic value of higher teacher quality

EA Hanushek - Economics of Education review, 2011 - Elsevier
Most analyses of teacher quality end without any assessment of the economic value of
altered teacher quality. This paper combines information about teacher effectiveness with …

What do test scores miss? The importance of teacher effects on non–test score outcomes

CK Jackson - Journal of Political Economy, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
Teachers affect a variety of student outcomes through their influence on both cognitive and
noncognitive skill. I proxy for students' noncognitive skill using non–test score behaviors …

The impact of family income on child achievement: Evidence from the earned income tax credit

GB Dahl, L Lochner - American Economic Review, 2012 - aeaweb.org
Using an instrumental variables strategy, we estimate the causal effect of income on
children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives from the large …