Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
Income distribution, poverty and inequality.
Analysing government fiscal forecasts and tax and spending.
Analysis of the fiscal choices an independent Scotland would face.
Case studies that give a flavour of the areas where IFS research has an impact on society.
Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
A peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing articles by academics and practitioners.
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The long-term impacts of teachers: teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood
The use of test-score-based "value-added" (VA) measures to evaluate teachers is highly debated, partly because there is little evidence on whether high VA teachers improve student outcomes in adulthood. We address this question by linking school district data from grades 3-8 to tax records for 3 million children. We find that being assigned to a high value-added teacher increases the probability of college attendance, raises earnings, reduces teenage pregnancy rates, and improves the neighborhood that the student lives in at age 25. We address concerns about sorting of students to teachers using previously unobserved parent characteristics as well as a quasi-experimental research design based on changes in teaching staff. The impacts of teacher VA are roughly constant across grades 3-8. A one standard deviation improvement in teacher VA in a single grade raises earnings by 0.6%. Replacing a teacher whose VA is in the bottom 5% with an average teacher increases students' earnings by up to $176,000 per classroom taught.
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John Friedman , Harvard Kennedy School
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