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Adjusted state teacher salaries and the decision to teach

Rickman, Dan S.; Wang, Hongbo; Winters, John V. - 2015

Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across U.S. states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state differences in teacher characteristics, cost of living, household amenity attractiveness and...

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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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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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Returns to teaching repetition : the effect of short-term teaching experience on student outcomes

Cuffe, Harold E.; Feld, Jan; O'Grady, Trevor - 2019

Teachers often deliver the same lesson multiple times in one day. In contrast to year-to-year teaching experience, it is unclear how this teaching repetition affects student outcomes. We examine the effects of teaching repetition in a setting where students are randomly assigned to a university...

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Gender differences in student evaluations of teaching: identification and consequences

Cannon, Edmund S.; Cipriani, Giam Pietro - 2021

Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) have been suggested as one possible cause for low representation of women among academic economists. While econometric analyses using control variables certainly report that SETs can be influenced by the gender of both teacher and student, such studies may...

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Online teaching and gender bias

Ayllón, Sara - 2021

I study the impact of online instruction on teaching evaluations at a higher education institution in Spain. Using a difference-in-differences approach, I show that in the semester when teaching moved online, female lecturers were evaluated more poorly than in previous semesters. The performance...

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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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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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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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