Student Demographics, Teacher Sorting, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from the End of School Desegregation | Zendy

C. Kirabo Jackson | Zendy

AI Assistant Blog Pricing

Home ZAIA Blog

Open Access

Student Demographics, Teacher Sorting, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from the End of School Desegregation

Author(s) -

C. Kirabo Jackson

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

journal of labor economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 8.184

H-Index - 109

eISSN - 1537-5307

pISSN - 0734-306X

DOI - 10.1086/599334

Subject(s) - desegregation , instrumental variable , teacher quality , ordinary least squares , quality (philosophy) , sorting , demographic economics , demographics , psychology , mathematics education , labour economics , economics , sociology , econometrics , demography , political science , mathematics , operations management , metric (unit) , philosophy , public administration , epistemology , algorithm

The reshuffling of students due to the end of student busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg provides a unique opportunity to investigate the relationship between changes in student attributes and changes in teacher quality that are not confounded with changes in school or neighborhood characteristics. Comparisons of ordinary least squares and instrumental variable results suggest that spatial correlation between teachers' residences, students' residences, and schools could lead to spurious correlation between student attributes and teacher characteristics. Schools that experienced a repatriation of black students experienced a decrease in various measures of teacher quality. I provide evidence that this was primarily due to changes in labor supply. (c) 2009 by The University of Chicago.

The content you want is available to Zendy users.

Already have an account? Click here to sign in.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research