Teacher quality and dropout outcomes in a large, urban school district

Koedel, Cory

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2008.06.004

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“…Similarly, the coefficient is nonsignificant when looking at students whose families are above the median poverty level (i.e., of higher socio-economic status, column 5) but negative and significant for students of lower socio-economic status (-23%, column 6). These results are in line with the idea that more qualified and motivated teachers may be more productive for disadvantaged students (Kim, 2011;Koedel, 2008). The results also help explain the positive results found by Neal (1997) 20 when looking at the effect of Catholic schools on urban minorities.…”

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Nuns and the effects of catholic schools. Evidence from Vatican II

Gihleb

Giuntella

2017

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu This paper examines the causal effects of Catholic schooling on educational attainment. Using a novel instrumental-variable approach that exploits an exogenous shock to the Catholic school system, we show that the positive correlation between Catholic schooling and student outcomes is explained by selection bias. Spearheaded by the universal call to holiness and the opening to lay leadership, the reforms that occurred at the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) in the early 1960s produced a dramatic exogenous change in the cost/benefit ratio of religious life in the Catholic Church. The decline in vocations that followed contributed to a significant increase in costs and, in many cases, to the closure of Catholic schools. We document that this decline was heterogeneous across US dioceses, and that it was more marked in those dioceses governed by a liberal bishop. Merging diocesan data drawn from the Official Catholic Directory and the US Census, we show that that the variation in the supply of female religious teachers across US dioceses is strongly related to Catholic schooling. Using the abrupt decline in female vocations as an instrument for Catholic schooling, we find no evidence of positive effects on student outcomes. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SJEL Classification: I20, J24, N3

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Section: Did the Shock Affect The Quality Of Catholic Schools?supporting

confidence: 84%

“…Koedel (2008) shows that teacher quality and education have significant effects on graduation outcomes. If we believe that the higher education and motivation of sisters had a significant and positive impact on the student outcomes, we should expect our reduced-form coefficient to be upward-biased.…”

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confidence: 99%

Nuns and the effects of catholic schools. Evidence from Vatican II

Gihleb

Giuntella

2017

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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“…While there has been a fair amount of research in urban reforms more generally (Buddin and Zamarro, 2009;Kodel, 2008;Booker et al, 2008;Zimmer and Buddin, 2006;Lankford and Wyckoff, 2001), Sunderman and Payne (2009) note a general lack of research on the effect school closures have on student outcomes. However, there is a related literature on the effects of student mobility that consistently finds adverse effects of mobility on student outcomes (Hanushek et al, 2004;Booker et al, 2007;Xu et al, 2009;Ozek, 2009).…”

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Closing schools in a shrinking district: Do student outcomes depend on which schools are closed?

Engberg

Gill

Zamarro

et al. 2012

Journal of Urban Economics

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“…Third, religious instruction in Catholic schools may alter the preferences of teens, reducing the likelihood of undertaking activities that lead to dropping out (Figlio and Ludwig, 2000). Finally, Catholic schools benefit from extraordinarily committed teachers, and Koedel (2008) provides recent evidence that teacher quality positively affects high school completion rates. 4 Our results leave the door open for an effect of Catholic schooling on educational attainment through one of these mechanisms.…”

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confidence: 99%