TY - BOOK AU - Chetty,Raj AU - Friedman,John N. AU - Rockoff,Jonah E. ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - September 2013; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - 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 who raise students' test scores 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 in primary school 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% with an average teacher would increase the present value of students' lifetime income by approximately $250,000 per classroom UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w19424 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w19424 ER -