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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481678
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322716
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Air Pollution and Student Performance in the U.S
Gilraine, Michael; Zheng, Angela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We combine satellite-based pollution data and test scores from over 10,000 U.S. school districts to estimate the relationship between air pollution and test scores. To deal with potential endogeneity we instrument for air quality using (i) year-to-year coal production variation and (ii) a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210089
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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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