%0 Report
        %A Laverde, Mariana
%A Mykerezi, Elton
%A Sojourner, Aaron
%A Sood, Aradhya
        %T Match Effects and the Gains from Alternative Job Assignments: Evidence from a Teacher Labor Market
        %D 2026
        %8 2026 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 18397
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18397
        %X 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.
        %K teacher effectiveness
%K teacher–student match effects
%K assignment and sorting
%K education production
%K labor markets in education