TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Laverde, Mariana
AU  - Mykerezi, Elton
AU  - Sojourner, Aaron
AU  - Sood, Aradhya
        TI  - Match Effects and the Gains from Alternative Job Assignments: Evidence from a Teacher Labor Market
        PY  - 2026/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18397
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18397
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - teacher effectiveness
KW  - teacher–student match effects
KW  - assignment and sorting
KW  - education production
KW  - labor markets in education
        ER  -