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Essays in Labor and the Economics of Education
Essays in Labor and the Economics of Education
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151518
- ISBN
- 9798382772028
- DDC
- 370.5
- 저자명
- Kuo, Calvin.
- 서명/저자
- Essays in Labor and the Economics of Education
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Los Angeles, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 138 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-12, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Bailey, Martha Jane.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation consists of two chapters at the intersection of labor and the economics of education. In Chapter 1, I examine the role of management in the public sector, focusing on school principals and how they impact student outcomes. I find that a one standard-deviation increase in principal quality raises average student achievement by about 5% of a standard-deviation corresponding to a $15,000 increase in expected lifetime earnings. To identify effective principals, I construct principal value-added estimates and provide the first evidence that they are forecast unbiased. I use these individual-level estimates to examine the correlates of value-added and the mechanisms through which principal effects operate. I find that test-score boosting principals are stronger at recruiting and retaining their strongest staff members, even though they cannot offer teachers higher salaries, and are more likely to assign their best teachers to larger classrooms, increasing overall student learning. I argue that this finding reflects differences in soft skills and management practices as I document a robust positive relationship between value-added and various measures of leadership and teacher empowerment. In Chapter 2, I study how changes in job security affect worker selection and effort in the context of tenure removal for public school teachers. My analysis reveals that in the years after North Carolina eliminated tenure, newly hired teachers had smaller effects on student math and reading achievement as measured by value-added. These effects are driven by selection into the workforce, as teacher observable characteristics remained largely unchanged. Additionally, I find that tenure receipt is not associated with changes in effort, as value-added in the years after tenure parallels the pre-tenure years.
- 일반주제명
- Educational leadership
- 키워드
- Best teachers
- 기타저자
- University of California, Los Angeles Economics 0246
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-12A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aThis dissertation consists of two chapters at the intersection of labor and the economics of education. In Chapter 1, I examine the role of management in the public sector, focusing on school principals and how they impact student outcomes. I find that a one standard-deviation increase in principal quality raises average student achievement by about 5% of a standard-deviation corresponding to a $15,000 increase in expected lifetime earnings. To identify effective principals, I construct principal value-added estimates and provide the first evidence that they are forecast unbiased. I use these individual-level estimates to examine the correlates of value-added and the mechanisms through which principal effects operate. I find that test-score boosting principals are stronger at recruiting and retaining their strongest staff members, even though they cannot offer teachers higher salaries, and are more likely to assign their best teachers to larger classrooms, increasing overall student learning. I argue that this finding reflects differences in soft skills and management practices as I document a robust positive relationship between value-added and various measures of leadership and teacher empowerment. In Chapter 2, I study how changes in job security affect worker selection and effort in the context of tenure removal for public school teachers. My analysis reveals that in the years after North Carolina eliminated tenure, newly hired teachers had smaller effects on student math and reading achievement as measured by value-added. These effects are driven by selection into the workforce, as teacher observable characteristics remained largely unchanged. Additionally, I find that tenure receipt is not associated with changes in effort, as value-added in the years after tenure parallels the pre-tenure years.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0031.
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■653 ▼aReading achievement
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■792 ▼a2024
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17162055▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


