Measuring Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education

Pieter De Vlieger, Brian Jacob, Kevin Stange

NBER Working Paper No. 22998
Issued in December 2016

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We are very grateful to Hinrich Eylers and Ashok Yadav at the University of Phoenix for many discussions and for providing access to the data. This paper was prepared for the NBER Conference “Productivity in Higher Education” held on June 1, 2016. We also are grateful for useful feedback from Caroline Hoxby and other participants at the conference and at the University of Michigan Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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