Replication data for: Does Helping John Help Sue? Evidence of Spillovers in Education
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Isaac M. Opper
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Project Citation:
Opper, Isaac M. Replication data for: Does Helping John Help Sue? Evidence of Spillovers in Education. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113152V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Does the impact of teachers extend beyond the students in their classroom? Using the natural transitions of students from multiple elementary schools into a single middle school, this paper provides a new method for isolating and quantifying peer spillover effects of teaching and shows that ignoring these spillovers underestimates a teacher's value by at least 30 percent. Because the spillovers also affect teacher value-added estimates, I develop a method of moments estimator of teacher value-added and show that accounting for the spillovers does not have a large impact on the ranking of teachers in New York City. I conclude by showing that the spillovers occur within groups of students who share the same race and gender, which suggests that social networks play a critical role in disseminating the effect.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Teacher Value-Added;
Peer Effects
JEL Classification:
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H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
I21 Analysis of Education
J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J45 Public Sector Labor Markets
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
I21 Analysis of Education
J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J45 Public Sector Labor Markets
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Geographic Coverage:
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New York City
Data Type(s):
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administrative records data
Collection Notes:
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The data can be obtained through a request to the New York City Department of Education. The necessary data includes: student demographics; student test scores; and student-teacher linkages.
Methodology
Data Source:
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New York City Department of Education Administrative Data
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