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Accounting for Dropouts in Evaluations of Social Experiments

Heckman, James J.; Smith, Jeffrey A.; Taber, Christopher - 2021

This paper considers the statistical and economic justification for one widely-used method of adjusting data from social experiments to account for dropping-out behavior due to Bloom (1984). We generalize the method to apply to distributions not just means, and present tests of the key...

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An Evaluation of Bias in Three Measures of Teacher Quality : Value-Added, Classroom Observations, and Student Surveys

Bacher-Hicks, Andrew - 2017

There are three primary measures of teaching performance: student test-based measures (i.e., value added), classroom observations, and student surveys. Although all three types of measures could be biased by unmeasured traits of the students in teachers' classrooms, prior research has largely...

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Causal Effects in Non-Experimental Studies : Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs

Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Wahba, Sadek M. - 2021

treatment impact of a program? Using data from Lalonde's (1986) influential evaluation of non-experimental methods, we …

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Building Bridges between Structural and Program Evaluation Approaches to Evaluating Policy

Heckman, James J. - 2010

This paper compares the structural approach to economic policy analysis with the program evaluation approach. It offers …

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Addressing Cross-National Generalizability in Educational Impact Evaluation

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2019

The evaluation of educational programs has accelerated dramatically in the past quarter century. While such evaluations …

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The Effect of Evaluation on Performance : Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-Career Teachers

Taylor, Eric S. - 2011

The effect of evaluation on employee performance is traditionally studied in the context of the principal-agent problem …. Evaluation can, however, also be characterized as an investment in the evaluated employee's human capital. We study a sample of … mid-career public school teachers where we can consider these two types of evaluation effect separately. Employee …

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The Long-Term Consequences of Teacher Discretion in Grading of High-Stakes Tests

Diamond, Rebecca - 2016

We examine the long-term consequences of teacher discretion in grading of high-stakes tests. Bunching in Swedish math test score distributions reveal that teachers inflate students who have “a bad test day,” but do not to discriminate based on immigrant status or gender. By developing a new...

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Surprising Comparative Properties of Monetary Models : Results from a New Data Base

Taylor, John B. - 2010

In this paper we investigate the comparative properties of empirically-estimated monetary models of the U.S. economy. We make use of a new data base of models designed for such investigations. We focus on three representative models: the Christiano, Eichenbaum, Evans (2005) model, the Smets and...

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Taxing Our Wealth

Scheuer, Florian; Slemrod, Joel - 2022

This paper evaluates proposals for an annual wealth tax. While a dozen OECD countries levied wealth taxes in the recent past, now only three retain them, with only Switzerland raising a comparable fraction of revenue as recent proposals for a US wealth tax. Studies of these taxes sometimes, but...

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Split Sample Instrumental Variables

Angrist, Joshua D.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021

Instrumental Variables (IV) estimates tend to be biased in the same direction as Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) in finite samples if the instruments are weak. To address this problem we propose a new IV estimator which we call Split Sample Instrumental Variables (SSIV). SSIV works as follows: we...

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