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AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
Volume 104, Issue 9, Pages 2633-2679Publisher
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.9.2633
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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.
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