Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About in the United States

By C. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, Jacob L. Vigdor. Education Finance and Policy, 2009

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Stuck in the Middle: Impacts of Grade Configuration in Public Schools (2010, unknown): “10 Recent estimates of the impact of a teacher absence on student achievement are roughly –0.002 standard deviations (see Miller et al. (2008), Clotfelter et al. (2009), Herrmann and Rockoff (2009)).”
In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Italian Mezzogiorno (2016, unknown): “For example, Clotfelter et al. (2009) discusses distributional and other consequences of American teacher absenteeism, while teacher absenteeism and other forms of public sector shirking are a perennial concern in developing countries (see, e.g., Banerjee and Duflo, 2006, and Chaudhury et al.,…”
Are Student Absences Worth the Worry in U.S. Primary Schools? (2017, result): “Regarding the former, studies by Herrman and Rockoff (2012) and Clotfelter et al. (2009) find that a one SD increase in teacher 28 absences similarly reduces student achievement by 0.02 to 0.04 test-score SD.”
Worker Absence and Productivity: Evidence from Teaching (2012, unknown): “Miller, Murnane, and Willett (2008) and Clotfelter, Ladd, and Vigdor (2009) estimate the average effect of teacher absence on student achievement using a teacher fixed effects approach.”