Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added: Testing and Estimation

Conventional value-added models (VAMs) compare average test scores across schools after regression-adjusting for students' demographic characteristics and previous scores. This article tests for VAM bias using a procedure that asks whether VAM estimates accurately predict the achievement conseq...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Angrist, Joshua, Hull, Peter Davenport, Pathak, Parag, Walters, Christopher Ross
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113679
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