C. Kirabo Jackson

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that a 10% increase in per pupil spending each year for all 12 years of public school leads to 031 more completed years of education, about 7% higher wages, and a 32 percentage point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty; effects are much more pronounced for children from low-income families.

TL;DR: This article found that students have larger test score gains when their teachers experience improvements in the observable characteristics of their colleagues, and that peer quality explains about twenty percent of the own-teacher effect.

TL;DR: This paper found that students have larger test score gains when their teachers experience improvements in the observable characteristics of their colleagues, and that peer quality explains about 20 percent of the own-teacher effect.

TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between changes in student attributes and changes in teacher quality that are not confounded with changes in school or neighborhood characteristics and found that spatial correlation between teachers residences, students' residences, and schools could lead to spurious correlation between student attributes, and teacher characteristics.

TL;DR: A review of the most recent findings in economics on the importance of teachers and on teacher-related policies aimed at improving educational production can be found in this paper, where the authors discuss how educational outcomes might be improved by leveraging teacher effectiveness through processes of recruitment, assignment, compensation, evaluation, promotion, and retention.