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Does Class Size Matter? How, and at What Cost?
Kedagni, Desire - 2019
Using high quality administrative data on Greece we show that class size has a hump shaped effect on achievement. We do so both nonparametrically and parametrically, while controlling for potential endogeneity and allowing for quantile effects. We then embed our estimates for this relationship...
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Persistency in Teachers’ Grading Bias and Effects on Longer-Term Outcomes : University Admissions Exams and Choice of Field of Study
Lavy, Victor - 2019
exam score and national exam score. We then define a teacher bias measure at the class level by the difference between boys … teacher bias measure based on multiple classes, and to estimate the effect for later cohorts' performance. We find a very high … correlation of within-teacher gender biases measured in different classes, which reveals high persistency in teachers' gender …
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Human Capital Depreciation
Dinerstein, Michael - 2020
variation from the teacher assignment process in Greece. We find significant losses to output, as a one-year increase in time …
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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II : Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
Chetty, Raj - 2013
likely to have children as teenagers. Replacing a teacher whose VA is in the bottom 5% with an average teacher would increase …
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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I : Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates
Chetty, Raj - 2013
Are teachersʼ impacts on studentsʼ test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? One reason this question has sparked debate is disagreement about whether value-added (VA) measures provide unbiased estimates of teachersʼ causal impacts on student achievement. We test for bias...
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The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers : Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
Chetty, Raj - 2011
from 4 to 8. On average, a one standard deviation improvement in teacher VA in a single grade raises earnings by about 1 …% at age 28. Replacing a teacher whose VA is in the bottom 5% with an average teacher would increase the present value of …
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