Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale

We thank the NYC Department of Education and Michelle Costa for providing data. Amy Ellen Schwartz was instrumental in lending access to the Fitnessgram. Greg Duncan, Avi Feller, Richard Startz, Jim Wyckoff, Dean Jolliffe, Richard Buddin, George Farkas, Sean Reardon, Michal Kurlaender, Marianne Page, Susanna Loeb, Jesse Rothstein, Jeff Smith, Howard Bloom, and seminar participants at Teachers College Columbia University, Stanford CEPA, Irvine Network on Interventions in Development, and APPAM provided helpful comments. Siddhartha Aneja, Annie Laurie Hines, and Danea Horn provided outstanding research assistance. All remaining errors are our own. Research reported in this publication was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P01HD065704. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or the National Bureau of Economic Research.