students' lifetime income by more than $250,000 for the average class- room in our sample. We conclude that good teachers …Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has …' impacts on student achievement and (2) whether high-VA teachers improve students' long-term outcomes. We address these two …

. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures … instruction. These results are particularly strong for Hispanic students, male students, and lower-achieving students. We also …

schools, students, and their families with our own survey conducted in 2000 regarding the use of teacher incentives. This …

We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

-experimental design based on changes in teaching staff. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find …

This study examines the effects of negative equity on children's academic performance, using data on children attending … selection into initial mortgage terms. In contrast to the existing literature on foreclosure and children's outcomes, we find … that Florida students with the highest risk of negative equity exhibit significantly higher test score growth. These …

eligible low-income students to attend private schools. Specifically, we examine whether students in schools that were exposed …We study the effects of private school competition on public school students' test scores in the wake of Florida … the scholarship program, than did students in schools that faced less competition. The degree of competition is …

improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that … the present value of students' lifetime income by approximately $250,000 per classroom …Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has …