Does Cheaper Mean Better? The Impact of Using Adjunct Instructors on Student Outcomes

By E. Bettinger, Bridget Terry Long. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010

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American Higher Education in Transition (2011, background): “In contrast, Bettinger and Long (2010) showed that having an adjunct as an instructor in an introductory class in some professional fi elds increases the likelihood that a student will take additional classes in the fi eld, while Hoffman and Oreopoulos (2009) found that the tenure/tenure-track…”
The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers (2017, unknown): “This strategy is motivated by the work of Bettinger and Long (2005, 2010), who leverage within-unit variation in the racial and faculty-rank composition of university departments as instrumental variables (IV) for assignment to a demographically-matched or adjunct instructor.”
Exposure to Same-Race Teachers and Student Disciplinary Outcomes for Black Students in North Carolina (2017, methodology): “Specifically, we adapt techniques used previously by Bettinger and Long (2005, 2010) to explore whether exposure to tenured versus adjunct instructors affects postsecondary student outcomes.”