The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah E. Rockoff

NBER Working Paper No. 17699
Issued in December 2011

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We thank Joseph Altonji, Josh Angrist, David Card, Gary Chamberlain, David Deming, Caroline Hoxby, Guido Imbens, Brian Jacob, Thomas Kane, Lawrence Katz, Adam Looney, Phil Oreopoulos, Jesse Rothstein, Douglas Staiger, Danny Yagan, and seminar participants at the NBER Summer Institute, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Univ. of Chicago, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Brookings, Columbia, Univ. of Maryland, Pompeu Fabra, University College London, Univ. of British Columbia, and UC San Diego for helpful discussions and comments. This paper draws upon results from a paper in the IRS Statistics of Income Paper Series entitled “New Evidence on the Long- Term Impacts of Tax Credits on Earnings.” Tax microdata were not accessed to write the present paper, as all results using tax data are based on tables contained in the SOI white paper. Peter Ganong, Sarah Griffis, Michal Kolesar, Jessica Laird, and Heather Sarsons provided outstanding research assistance. Financial support from the Lab for Economic Applications and Policy at Harvard and the National Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Publicly available portions of the analysis code are posted at: http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/va_bias_code.zip

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