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Thanks @femonomics for starting this #TweetABlackEconomistsPaper challenge! I am excited to tweet about "Match Quality, Working Productivity, and Worker Mobility: Direct Evidence from Teachers."
I stumbled upon this paper during 2nd yr labor, when I was doing a lit review on job mobility. As many folks know, job mobility papers like Jovanovic (1979) and Topel and Ward (1992) infer match quality from wage. And match quality, in many models, affects job mobility.
But very little research measures match quality based on output. Here comes Prof @KiraboJackson's paper, which estimates match quality--this super important concept--based on teachers switching schools and value-add.
The main estimating equation maps out teacher effectiveness over time while accounting for time-varying differences in outcomes across schools.
He shows that teachers perform better in the classroom after they move to another school than before the move, ruling out teachers moving to higher performing school, endogenous teacher effort, and student selection.
He estimates match quality to be 10-40% of what is typically estimated as teacher quality, and an important element of student achievement.
I think it is a remarkable paper (you can find it in ReStat here: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/REST_a_00339) and I hope others get to read it and uplift Professor Jackson, and other Black economists and their work.
