Professor Qualities and Student Achievement

By F. Hoffmann, Philip Oreopoulos. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009

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Evaluating Students' Evaluations of Professors (2014, unknown): “First of all, the random allocation of students to teachers in our setting differentiates our approach from that of Hoffman and Oreopoulos (2009) and Weinberg, Fleisher, and Hashimoto (2009), who cannot purge their estimates from the potential bias due to the best students selecting the courses of…”
What Makes for a Good Teacher and Who Can Tell? Working Paper 30. (2009, background): “First, we consider a 3 Another study that has reached this conclusion is Hoffman and Oreopoulos (2006) who find that college students’ probability of dropping a course, or taking courses in the same subject in subsequent years, is unrelated to whether the instructor is part-time or full-time, does…”
Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors (2010, unknown): “In results not shown, we estimate our models using a fixed effect framework as in Kane et al. (2008) and Hoffmann and Oreopoulos (2009) and find qualitatively similar results.”