What Makes an Effective Teacher? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

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Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One? (2008, background): “, Clotfelter, Ladd, and Vigdor 2006, 2007), but others do not find this relationship (see, e.g., Harris and Sass 2006 on graduate course work and Kane, Rockoff, and Staiger 2008 on college selectivity). Similarly, Clotfelter, Ladd, and Vigdor (2006, 2007) and Goldhaber (2007) find a link between tea”
On the origins of gender gaps in human capital: Short- and long-term consequences of teachers' biases (2018, background): “…choice program opened the possibility for a better match between students and schools, and the system had the potential to increase school productivity by introducing competition among schools (see Lavy 2010 and Lavy 2016 for more details of this program and its medium and long term consequences).”
Teacher Effects and Teacher-Related Policies (2014, background): “Other recent work by economists on this topic includes Rockoff & Speroni (2010), Rockoff et al. (2012) and Lavy (2011). stakes, tests).”
Searching for Effective Teachers with Imperfect Information (2010, background): “11 student-level standard deviations in math and 0.095 standard deviations in reading. Using data from two school districts in New Jersey, Rockoff (2004) reports that one standard deviation in teacher effects is associated with a 0.”