transmission mechanism for the origin-country school quality effects. It also assesses the empirical merits of two alternative … migration among those from countries with better quality school. In other words, it is the impact of origin country school …

This paper presents the first causal evidence on the effects of school accountability systems on teacher labor markets …. We exploit a 2002 change in Florida's school accountability system that exogenously shocked some schools to higher … likely to move. Using microdata from the universe of Florida public school teachers, we find strong evidence that …

Many large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control … to schools in the hiring of teachers, reducing, for example, the importance of seniority. If school hiring authorities …. Prior research on teacher transfers uses career history data, identifying the school in which a teacher teaches in each year …

proficiency levels by the end of the 2013-2014 school year. This study uses a residential sorting model to evaluate the benefits … of the NCLB to Las Vegas area homeowners. While existing studies provide marginal values for various measures of school … students in the elementary school assigned to their housing location. The estimation accounts for the endogeneity school …

We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree … school. Using rich administrative data on peers, teachers, course offerings and other inputs, we show that the impacts of … choice are strongly predicted by gains on several measures of school quality. Gains in attainment are concentrated among …

variety of school strategies and outcomes. In this paper, we collect unparalleled data on the inner-workings of 35 charter … schools and correlate these data with credible estimates of each school's effectiveness. We find that traditionally collected … teachers with an advanced degree -- are not correlated with school effectiveness. In stark contrast, we show that an index of …

In November of 2007, the New York City Department of Education assigned each elementary and middle school a letter … and changes in student achievement and other school environmental factors such as attendance, and were linked to a system … and mathematics (measured in January and March of 2008, respectively) using school level aggregate data. Although schools …