Interpreting Tests of School VAM Validity

We develop over-identification tests that use admissions lotteries to assess the predictive value of regression-based value-added models (VAMs). These tests have degrees of freedom equal to the number of quasi-experiments available to estimate school effects. By contrast, previously implemented VAM...

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Main Authors: Walters, Christopher, Angrist, Joshua, Hull, Peter Davenport, Pathak, Parag
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association (AEA) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104953
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