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A New Method for Estimating Teacher Value-Added

Gilraine, Michael - 2020

This paper proposes a new methodology for estimating teacher value-added. Rather than imposing a normality assumption on unobserved teacher quality (as in the standard empirical Bayes approach), our nonparametric estimator permits the underlying distribution to be estimated directly and in a...

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School Choice, Competition, and Aggregate School Quality

Gilraine, Michael; Petronijevic, Uros; Singleton, John D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

,000 per charter school enrollee. We further show that competition drives the aggregate gains; test score impacts on students …

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Inside the Black Box of Doctoral Education : What Program Characteristics Influence Doctoral Students' Attrition and Graduation Probabilities?

Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2006

collected from students who entered the treatment and 50 control departments during a 15 year period that spanned the start of …

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Crafting A Class : The Trade Off Between Merit Scholarships and Enrolling Lower-Income Students

Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2005

greatest number of NMS students …

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Making Teaching Last : Long-Run Value-Added

Gilraine, Michael; Pope, Nolan G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Teacher value-added (VA) measures how teachers improve their students' contemporaneous test scores. Many teachers …, however, argue that contemporaneous test scores are a poor proxy for their permanent influence on students. This paper … test scores with subsequent test scores in VA estimation. We find that students assigned to high long-run VA teachers fare …

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School District Leave Policies, Teacher Absenteeism, and Student Achievement

Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 1989

In an effort to reduce salary costs, many school districts have begun to offer teachers financial incentives to retire early. Often, however, these districts have limits on the number of cumulated unused sick leave days that teachers may receive cash payments, credits toward future health...

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