Internal Seminar: Gustave Kenedi

Title : Teacher Value Added and Higher Education Choices

Abstract : We study the role of teachers in shaping students’ higher education choices in France. Focusing on “principal” teachers, we estimate their value added across a range of outcomes capturing students’ post-secondary decisions, drawing on administrative data on higher education choices from 2012 to 2022. The data allow us to observe a rich set of characteristics for each student, which we use to address sorting and recover credible value-added estimates. Preliminary results suggest that principal teachers play an important role in shaping the higher education choices students make.

Room A406