Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: 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 percent with an average teacher would increase the present value of students' lifetime income by approximately $250,000 per classroom. (JEL H75, I21, J24, J45)
Source: American Economic Review
Authors: Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah E. Rockoff
Institutions: Harvard University, Columbia University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1976049077