Calendrier du 30 mai 2023
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 30/05/2023 de 17:00 à 18:00
R1-13
STRICOT Maëlle (PSE)
Does news coverage of violence against women affect their judicial treatment?
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 30/05/2023 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2.21
TARTOVA Desislava (PSE)
Teacher Value-Added in the Absence of Annual Test Scores: Utilising Teacher Networks
I develop a novel method for estimating teacher value added which controls for non-random student-teacher sorting without having to control for lagged grades in standardised tests. To do so, I exploit networks'' of teachers - teachers from the same subject who are observed in classrooms with a unique link'' teacher from another subject. I measure the relative value added of two teachers in a network as the difference between their classrooms' grades in a standardised exam, unexplained by student characteristics, correcting for the classrooms' grade differential in the subject of the link teacher. I show that the estimated teacher effects are unbiased under plausible assumptions that I confirm in the data. Using exhaustive French administrative data, I find that a 1 SD increase in teacher value added within school improves student scores by 0.17 SD in Math and 0.16 SD in French.