Match Effects and the Gains from Alternative Job Assignments: Evidence from a Teacher Labor Market

Mariana Laverde, Elton Mykerezi, Aaron Sojourner and Aradhya Sood
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Elton Mykerezi: University of Minnesota
Aradhya Sood: University of Toronto

No 2025-001, Working Papers from Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group

Abstract: This paper studies the relative importance of teacher-student match effects and general teacher effectiveness in producing student learning, and quantifies gains from alternative teacher assignments. We estimate a framework that separates these components, allowing match quality to vary with observable student characteristics and unobservable teacher-school factors. Using more than a decade of administrative data from a large urban district,we address endogenous sorting with quasi-random assignment variation induced by differences in driving time between teachers and schools. Match effects are similar in magnitude to general effectiveness. Teacher-acceptable reassignments can raise average test scores by about 0.13 standard deviations.

Keywords: teacher effectiveness; teacher-student match effects; assignment; sorting; education production; education labor market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 J24 J45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-02
Note: MIP
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