Dear all,
We hope you can join us this Wednesday, March 13, 2013 for the Applied
Statistics Workshop in CGIS Knafel 354. Gary
Chamberlain<http://scholar.harvard.edu/chamberlain>in>,
Louis Berkman Professor of Economics from the Department of Economics at
Harvard University, will give a presentation entitled "Predictive Effects
of Teachers and Schools on Test Scores, College Attendance, and Earnings".
A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.
Abstract:
I study predictive effects of teachers and schools on
test scores in fourth
through eighth grade and outcomes later in life such as college attendance
and earnings. The predictive effects have the following form: predict the
fraction of a classroom attending college at age 20 given the test score
for a different classroom in the same school with the same teacher, and
given the test score for a classroom in the same school with a different
teacher. I would like to have predictive effects that condition on averages
over many classrooms, with and without the same teacher. I set up a factor
model which, under certain assumptions, makes this feasible. Administrative
school district data n combination with tax data were used to calculate
estimates and do inference.
An up-to-date schedule for the workshop is available at
http://events.iq.harvard.edu/events/node/1208.
Best,
Konstantin
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Konstantin Kashin
Ph.D. Candidate in Government
Harvard University
Mobile: 978-844-0538
E-mail: kkashin(a)fas.harvard.edu
Site:
http://www.konstantinkashin.com/<http://people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ekkashi…