EXPLAINING THE DECLINE OF TEACHER APTITUDE IN THE UNITED STATES

By C. Hoxby, A. Leigh. 2004

249 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Raj Chetty
2. Emmanuel Saez
3. Danny Yagan
4. John N. Friedman
5. A. Leigh
6. Roland G. Fryer
7. Jason Margolis
8. J. Krieg

In Education

1. Raj Chetty
2. Roland G. Fryer
3. Danny Yagan
4. John N. Friedman
5. J. Krieg
6. Jason Margolis
7. Emmanuel Saez
8. A. Leigh

Citations in the corpus

• How does your kindergarten classroom affect your earnings? Evidence from Project Star. (2010, background): “Present value earnings gain from a 33 percent class-size reduction is $9,460 per student and $189,000 for the classroom.”
• Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City Public Schools (2011, methodology): “…women, contributes to the fact that teacher quality and aptitude has declined significantly in the past 40 years ðCorcoran, Evans, and Schwab 2004; Hoxby and Leigh 2004Þ.1 One potential method to increase student achievement and improve the quality of individuals selecting teaching as a…”
• Teacher quality and attrition (2006, background): “The finding that high-ability women are less likely to exit is interesting in light of recent research by Hoxby and Leigh (2004) and Corcoran, Evans, and Schwab (2004), who argue that the average quality of new female teachers has declined over time as women have succeeded in employment fields tra”
• Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality (2005, background): “Likewise, as in Roy (1951) and Hoxby and Leigh (2004), if the returns to ability are positively correlated across occupations, then the partial derivative of teacher quality with respect to teaching pay variance should be positive, while the partial derivative of teacher quality with respect to pay…”
• What Will Keep Today's Teachers Teaching? Looking for a Hook as a New Career Cycle Emerges (2008, background): “…this view, as teachers are paid increasingly disproportionately low wages, more highly skilled workers take their talents to other professions where there are greater earning opportunities (Hoxby & Leigh, 2004) and access to at least a middle-class lifestyle (Moulthrop, Calegari, & Eggers, 2005).”
• The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries: Evidence from 196 Randomized Field Experiments (2016, unknown): “[141] Hoxby, Caroline, and Andrew Leigh.”