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A Nonparametric Method for Estimating Teacher Value-Added. (2021). Gilraine, Michael ; McMillan, Robert ; Gu, Jiaying.
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  60. Other tests for normality are also possible. For instance, if α indeed follows a normal distribution N(0, σ2 α), then the logarithm of its characteristic function takes the form log φα(t) = −t2 /σ2 α , which implies that the first-order derivative with respect to t is of the form −t/σ2 α, which is a linear function of t. Since the distribution of α is identified (as established in Theorem 1), we can construct a consistent estimator for φα(t) and inspect linearity of the derivative of its logarithm transformation. Another specification test has been proposed in Bonhomme and Weidner (2019). We leave to future research a power comparison involving these and other specification tests. H Computation Appendix In this brief appendix, we discuss the estimation of F using NPMLE.
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  63. Proof. Using equation (2.64) in Rao (1992), we have log φα(t) = iE[α]t + Z t 0 ∂ ∂u log ψ(u, v) ψ(u, 0)ψ(0, v) u=0 dv. where i is the imaginary root. Using the fact that ∂ ∂u log ψ(u, v) ψ(u, 0)ψ(0, v) u=0 = ∂ψ(0, v)/∂u ψ(0, v) − ∂ψ(0, 0)/∂u ψ(0, 0) and that ∂ψ(0,0)/∂u ψ(0,0) = iE(Y1), we have log φα(t) = iE[α]t + Z t 0 ∂ψ(0, v)/∂u ψ(0, v) dv − iE(Y1)t = Z t 0 ∂ψ(0, v)/∂u ψ(0, v) dv, where the second equality holds because 1 has mean zero under Assumption 1. Additionally, under Assumptions 1- 3, we have ψ(u, v) = φα(u + v)φ(u)φ(v). Let u = 0, then φ(v) = ψ(0, v)/φα(v); and letting v = 0, then φ(v) = ψ(u, 0)/φα(u).
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  65. PSAT data cover school years 2012-13 through 2016-17. As the PSAT is normally taken in tenth grade, we keep cohorts in tenth grade from 2012-13 through 2016-17.67 We convert PSAT scores from the 2015-16 and 2016-17 administrations using the concordance tables provided by the College Board, so that all PSAT scores are reported on a 600-2400 scale. If a student is recorded as receiving multiple administrations of the PSAT, we take the score from the first time the student took the PSAT test. We have PSAT records for 159,028 students, covering forty-four percent of students from eligible cohorts.
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  75. Suspension data are available from 2003-04 through 2016-17. We restrict data to 2003-04 through 2009-10 to allow for sufficient time to elapse for students to receive suspensions after a student is taught by a given teacher. We calculate the total number of days of out-of-school suspensions for each student occurring in middle or high school (grades 6-12). If we do not find the student in the suspension files, we assume the student has never been suspended. Of note, the LAUSD embarked on an ambitious policy to eliminate “wilful defiance” suspensions, causing a large drop (almost seventy-five percent) in suspension rates in the 2010s, creating a low rate of suspension in the LAUSD data. We have suspension outcomes for our full value-added sample of 426,074 students from 2003-04 through 2009-10.
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  77. via the NPMLE of F performs similarly to the infeasible NPB estimator δNPB j defined in (2.6). It is surprising that the proposed estimator achieves this close approximation to the infeasible estimator, given the well-known fact that the NPMLE of F has a slow convergence rate (Fan, 1991). The key reason is that the nonparametric Bayes rule is a smooth functional of F, which can be estimated at a much better rate than the distribution F itself.
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  78. We follow Chetty et al. (2014a,b) and parametrize the control function for lagged test scores f1g(yi,t−1) with a cubic polynomial in prior-year scores in mathematics and English and interact these cubics with the student’s grade level. When prior test scores in the other subject are missing, we set the other subject prior score to zero and include an indicator for missing data in the other subject interacted with the controls for prior own-subject test scores. We parametrize the control function for teacher experience f2(ej(i,g,t)) using dummies for years of experience from 0 to 5, the omitted group being teachers with 6 or more years of experience. The student-level control vector Xigt consists of the respective demographic variables in each dataset.
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  79. We report the size and power performance of the proposed parametric bootstrap test in Table E.1 below, based on the following data generating process: Fix the sample size at n = 1000, and for a grid values of h ∈ {0, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1}, sample individual αj’s from the following three-component normal distribution: 0.025N(−h, θh) + 0.95N(0, θh) + 0.025N(h, θh) with θh = 0.1−0.05h2. The design of θh is such that the variance of α is always 0.1; this is roughly the variance of the teacher effects in the LAUSD data. When h = 0, the latent effect αj follows a normal distribution, and the bootstrap test should reject with probability equal to nominal size.
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  80. We then make several sample restrictions. First, we drop 100,000 student-year observations that cannot be matched to a teacher. Second, we drop 180,000 observations where we lack data on teacher experience; the data we drop here are over-represented in early years since we only have teacher experience data from 2007-08 onwards.58 Third, we only include classes with more than seven but fewer than forty students with valid current and lagged test scores in that subject, losing 11,000 observations. Fourth, we exclude 70,000 observations that lack a valid current or lagged test score in that subject.59 Our final sample is roughly 1.3 million student-year observations, covering roughly 660,000 million students and 11,000 teachers. Constructing Value-Added: With both samples in hand, we construct VA estimates for each teacher by running the following regression: yigt = f1g(yi,t−1) + f2(ej(i,g,t)) + φ1Xigt + φ2X̄c(i,g,t) + vj + igt .
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