Does Teacher Training Affect Pupil Learning? Evidence from Matched Comparisons in Jerusalem Public Schools

摘要: Most research on the relationship between teacher characteristics and pupil achievement focuses salaries, experience, education. The effect of in‐service training has received less attention. We estimate in Jerusalem elementary schools using a matched‐comparison design. Differences‐in‐differences, regression, matching estimates suggest secular led to an improvement test scores. for religious are not clear cut, perhaps because started later was implemented smaller scale. Estimates provided cost‐effective means increasing