Seminar: Mike Gilraine (NYU)

Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York

Title: A New Method of Estimating Teacher Value-Added Paper link: GGM_TVA Abstract: This paper proposes a new methodology for estimating teacher value-added. Rather than imposing a normality assumption on unobserved teacher quality (as in the standard empirical Bayes approach), our nonparametric estimator permits the underlying distribution to be estimated directly Read more…