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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement

Rivkin, Steven G., Hanushek, Eric A., Kain, John F.·2005·Econometrica
DOI 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2005.00584.x
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This paper disentangles the impact of schools and teachers in influencing achievement with special attention given to the potential problems of omitted or mismeasured variables and of student and school selection. Unique matched panel data from the UTD Texas Schools Project permit the identification of teacher quality based on student performance along with the impact of specific, measured components of teachers and schools. Semiparametric lower bound estimates of the variance in teacher quality based entirely on within-school heterogeneity indicate that teachers have powerful effects on reading and mathematics achievement, though little of the variation in teacher quality is explained by observable characteristics such as education or experience. The results suggest that the effects of a costly ten student reduction in class size are smaller than the benefit of moving one standard deviation up the teacher quality distribution, highlighting the importance of teacher effectiveness in the determination of school quality.

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Authors
Rivkin, S. G., Hanushek, E. A., & Kain, J. F.
Affiliations
Hoover Institution (US)
ORCID
Venue
Econometrica
Publisher
The Econometric Society
Published
2005-03
Volume
73
Issue
2
Pages
417-458
ISSN
  • 0012-9682 (ISSN-L)
  • 1468-0262
DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0262.2005.00584.x
OpenAlex
W3121388701
Semantic Scholar
b1097990bc6019e4732204c5a8b5477660609db3
Cited by
4,501
References
41
Citations by year
2026: 86 · 2025: 97 · 2024: 120 · 2023: 198 · 2022: 230 · 2021: 270 · 2020: 283 · 2019: 252 · 2018: 282 · 2017: 262 · 2016: 326 · 2015: 301 · 2014: 265 · 2013: 299 · 2012: 249
FWCI
587.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm, 3836 d)
Locations
  • Econometrica (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
  • Social Sciences › Education › Educational Environments and Student Outcomes
  • Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
Keywords
teacher quality, school quality, academic performance, student selection, omitted variable bias, reading achievement, mathematics achievement, class size, teacher effectiveness

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