Measuring returns to experience using supervisor ratings of observed performance: The case of classroom teachers
Courtney Bell,
Jessalynn James,
Eric S. Taylor
et al.
Abstract:We study the returns to experience in teaching, estimated using supervisor ratings from classroom observations. We describe the assumptions required to interpret changes in observation ratings over time as the causal effect of experience on performance. We compare two difference‐in‐differences strategies: the two‐way fixed effects estimator common in the literature, and an alternative which avoids potential bias arising from effect heterogeneity. Using data from Tennessee and Washington, DC, we show empirical … Show more
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