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Dinerstein, Michael - 2020

Human capital can depreciate if skills are unused. But estimating human capital depreciation is challenging, as worker … variation from the teacher assignment process in Greece. We find significant losses to output, as a one-year increase in time … estimate a skill depreciation rate of 4.3% and experience returns of 6.8% …

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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...

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Teachers' Use of Class Time and Student Achievement

Burgess, Simon M.; Rawal, Shenila; Taylor, Eric S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study teachers' choices about how to allocate class time across different instructional activities, for example, lecturing, open discussion, or individual practice. Our data come from secondary schools in England, specifically classes preceding GCSE exams. Students score higher in math when...

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The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital : Some Projections

Drozd, Mark M.; Moffitt, Robert A.; Zhao, Xinyu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school closures and the closing of many child care facilities. We provide projections of possible...

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Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness

Clotfelter, Charles T. - 2006

We use administrative data on North Carolina public schools to document the tendency for more highly qualified teachers to be matched with more advantaged students, and we measure the bias this pattern generates in estimates of the impacts of various teacher qualifications on student...

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Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement

Dee, Thomas S. - 2005

In the United States, girls outperform boys in measures of reading achievement while generally underperforming in science and mathematics. One major class of explanations for these gaps involves the gender-based interactions between students and teachers (e.g., role-model and Pygmalion effects)....

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On the Optimal Timing of Benefits with Heterogeneous Workers and Human Capital Depreciation

Shimer, Robert - 2006

This paper studies the optimal timing of unemployment insurance subsidies in a McCall search model. Risk-averse workers sequentially sample random job opportunities. Our model distinguishes unemployment subsidies from consumption during unemployment by allowing workers to save and borrow freely....

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The Nature of Surgeon Human Capital Depreciation

Hockenberry, Jason - 2014

To test how practice interruptions affect worker productivity, we estimate how temporal breaks affect surgeons' performance of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Using a sample of 188 surgeons who performed 56,315 CABG procedures in Pennsylvania between 2006 and 2010, we find that a...

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Teacher Labor Market Equilibrium and Student Achievement

Bates, Michael; Dinerstein, Michael; Johnston, Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multi-dimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....

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The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers

Gershenson, Seth - 2018

We examine the impact of having a same-race teacher on students' long-run educational attainment. Leveraging random student-teacher pairings in the Tennessee STAR class-size experiment, we find that black students randomly assigned to a black teacher in grades K-3 are 5 percentage points (7%)...

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