Incorporating teachers' revealed comparative advantage into teacher-replacement policy decisions would generate an estimated $3,000 in additional student lifetime earnings per classroom¶

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q1 i? A hypothetical policy replacing the lowest 5%-performing teachers with average teachers would generate $3,000 in additional student lifetime earnings per classroom if teachers' comparative advantage is considered relative to when it is not. → Delgado 2023

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Delgado 2023¶

Delgado, W. (2023). Is the Best Teacher the Best for Everyone? Variation of Teacher Effectiveness by Student Race. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/is-the-best-teacher-the-best-for-everyone

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The brief's policy calculation, citing an estimated $250,000 per-classroom lifetime-earnings effect of replacing the lowest 5%-performing teachers by traditional value-added; it reports the comparative-advantage version "would generate $3,000 in additional student lifetime earnings per classroom."

"This policy would generate $3,000 in additional student lifetime earnings per classroom if teachers' comparative advantage is considered relative to when it is not."

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