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How do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?
Stacy, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
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A Comparison of Growth Percentile and Value-Added Models of Teacher Performance
Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; Stacy, Brian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
School districts and state departments of education frequently must choose between a variety of methods to estimating …
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The Academic and Labor Market Returns of University Professors
Braga, Michela; Paccagnella, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper estimates the impact of college teaching on students' academic achievement and labor market outcomes using administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy) matched with Italian tax records. The estimation exploits the random allocation of students to teachers in a fixed sequence of...
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Evaluating Specification Tests in the Context of Value-Added Estimation
Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; Stacy, Brian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the properties of two specification tests that have been applied to a variety of estimators in the context of value-added measures (VAMs) of teacher and school quality: the Hausman test for choosing between random and fixed effects and a test for feedback (sometimes called a...
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Evaluating Students' Evaluations of Professors
Braga, Michela; Paccagnella, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students' evaluations for the same teachers using administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy). The effectiveness measures are estimated by comparing the subsequent performance in follow-on coursework of students who are...
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Assessing Teacher Quality in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Kingdon, Geeta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their subject specific teachers at the senior secondary level, we estimate the importance of individual teachers on student outcomes in the high-stake senior secondary exam (at the...
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The Drivers of Happiness Inequality: Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion
Becchetti, Leonardo; Massari, Riccardo; Naticchioni, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
are negligible. Second, among composition effects, education has an inequality-reducing impact, while the increase in … clear cut policy implication is that policies enhancing education and economic performance contribute to reduce happiness …
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Child Labor and Learning
Emerson, Patrick M.; Ponczek, Vladimir; Portela Souza, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro panel dataset of students in the São Paulo municipal school system. The potential endogeneity of working decisions and learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a...
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The Impact of Adolescent Motherhood on Education in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
. Furthermore, effects are heterogeneous across education groups: teen motherhood has larger negative effects on high school … completion and years of schooling among poor and low-education households. Our results imply that policies aimed at reducing … early childbearing will have important short-term effects on young women's education outcomes. …
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