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Fear and loathing in the classroom: why does teacher quality matter?

Insler, Michael A.; McQuoid, Alexander; Rahman, Ahmed S.; … - 2021

This work disentangles aspects of teacher quality that impact student learning and performance. We exploit detailed data from post-secondary education that links students from randomly assigned instructors in introductory-level courses to the students' performances in follow-on courses for a...

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Students are almost as effective as professors in university teaching

Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2019

In a previous paper, we have shown that academic rank is largely unrelated to tutorial teaching effectiveness. In this paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost as effective as senior instructors, and we produce...

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Are professors worth it? : the value-added and costs of tutorial instructors

Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018

A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions - small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank teach tutorials more effectively in a setting where students are randomly assigned to tutorial...

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Modeling the signaling value of the GED with an application to an exogenous passing standard increase in Texas

Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor); Tyler, John H. (contributor) - 2007

which affected GED test takers in Texas. We utilize unique data from the Texas Schools Micro Data Panel (TSMP) which contain … demographic and GED test score information from the Texas Education Agency linked to pre- and post-test taking Unemployment … Insurance quarterly wage records from the Texas Workforce Commission. Comparing Texas dropouts who acquired a GED before the …

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Can admissions percent plans lead to better collegiate fit for minority students?

Cortes, Kalena E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold - 2015

Why do so many students mismatch when choosing a college? A plausible hypothesis is a lack of information about the likelihood of admission. This study contributes to the literature on mismatch by testing whether public university automatic admissions policies mitigate academic undermatch and...

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Match or mismatch? : automatic admissions and college preferences of low- and high-income students

Lincove, Jane Arnold; Cortes, Kalena E. - 2016

We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori certainty of college admissions. We find that admissions certainty encourages college-ready...

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Efficacy vs. equity : what happens when states tinker with college admissions in a race-blind era?

Black, Sandra E.; Cortes, Kalena E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold - 2014

-year graduation. Importantly, we take advantage of a unique institutional feature of the Texas higher education system to control for …

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Markets for reputation : evidence on quality and quantity in academe

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2009

We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one’s peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the...

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Changing faculty employment at four-year colleges and universities in the United States

Zhang, Liang; Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Liu, Xiangmin - 2015

We use panel data models to examine variations and changes in faculty employment at four-year colleges and universities in the United States. The share of part-time faculty among total faculty has continued to grow during the last two decades, while the share of full-time lecturers and...

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Why does the U.S. have the best research universities? : incentives, resources, and virtuous circles

MacLeod, William Bentley; Urquiola Soux, Miguel - 2020

Around 1870 the U.S. had no research universities of note, while today it accounts for the largest number in the world. Many accounts attribute this transformation to events surrounding World War II. In contrast, this paper traces its origins to reforms that began in the 1870s. We first explain...

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