Mark John Roberts, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair Paul L E Grieco, Committee Member Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member John Jesse Cheslock, Outside Member
Keywords:
economics of education job mobility
Abstract:
This dissertation consists of three chapters on the economics of education. The first chapter empirically investigates assortative matching between elementary teachers and school districts through descriptive analyses of job matching and mobility. The second chapter continues the same research program by structurally estimating a model of teacher job choice. The final chapter goes in a different direction, using simulated data to study measurement of the `value added' by teachers or other educational inputs to student test scores.
