Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  The American Economic Review

• Publication date

  2014-08-28

• Fields of study

  Economics, Education

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  DOI 10.1257/AER.104.9.2593
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