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Engaging Teachers: Measuring the Impact of Teachers on Student Attendance in Secondary School

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  • Jing Liu
  • Susanna Loeb

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On average, secondary school students in the United States are absent from school three weeks per year. For this study, we are able to link middle and high school teachers to the class-attendance of students in their classrooms and create measures of teachers’ contributions to student class-attendance. We find systematic variation in teacher effectiveness at reducing unexcused class absences. These differences across teachers are as stable as those for student achievement, but teacher effectiveness on attendance only weakly correlates with their effects on achievement. A high value-added to attendance teacher has a stronger impact on students’ likelihood of finishing high school than does a high value-added to achievement teacher. Moreover, high value-added to attendance teachers can motivate students to pursue higher academic goals. These positive effects are particularly salient for low-achieving and low-attendance students.

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  • Jing Liu & Susanna Loeb, 2021. "Engaging Teachers: Measuring the Impact of Teachers on Student Attendance in Secondary School," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 56(2), pages 343-379.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:56:y:2021:i:2:p:343-379
    Note: DOI: 10.3368/jhr.56.2.1216-8430R3
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    1. Jo Blanden & Matthias Doepke & Jan Stuhler, 2022. "Education inequality," CEP Discussion Papers dp1849, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    2. Liu, Jing & Lee, Monica & Gershenson, Seth, 2021. "The short- and long-run impacts of secondary school absences," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 199(C).
    3. Seth Gershenson & Stephen B. Holt & Adam Tyner, 2024. "Making the grade: The effect of teacher grading standards on student outcomes," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 42(2), pages 305-318, April.
    4. Liu, Jing & Lee, Monica, 2022. "Beyond Chronic Absenteeism: The Dynamics and Disparities of Class Absences in Secondary School," IZA Discussion Papers 15664, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    5. Antoine Deeb, 2021. "A Framework for Using Value-Added in Regressions," Papers 2109.01741, arXiv.org, revised Oct 2021.
    6. Gershenson, Seth, 2021. "Identifying and Producing Effective Teachers," IZA Discussion Papers 14096, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    7. Michael Dinerstein & Isaac M. Opper, 2022. "Screening with Multitasking," CESifo Working Paper Series 9869, CESifo.
    8. Hayes, Michael S. & Liu, Jing & Gershenson, Seth, 2023. "Who refers whom? The effects of teacher characteristics on disciplinary office referrals," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
    9. Jason A. Grissom & Brendan Bartanen, 2022. "Potential Race and Gender Biases in High‐Stakes Teacher Observations," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 41(1), pages 131-161, January.

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