Dear colleagues,
We hereby invite you to join our next Economics
of Inequality Research Seminar at WU Vienna.
Pedro Carneiro
(UCL)
will present the paper
Interactions: Do Teacher Behaviors Predict Achievement, Executive Function, and Non-
Cognitive Outcomes in Elementary School?
Co-Authors:
Alejandra Campos (Columbia),
Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo (IADB),
Carolina Echeverri (University of Minnesota), Norbert Schady (World Bank)
Date and Time:
Monday, June 2nd; 3.00 p.m.
Location: WU Vienna,
D3 - D3.0.222.
Abstract
The quality of the interaction between a teacher and her students can be assessed through classroom
observations, in which observers measure the extent to which a teacher engages in classroom behaviors
that educators and educational psychologists believe to be conducive to learning. Using an experiment where i) students are randomly assigned to different teachers in each year of
elementary school, ii) students are tested annually in math, language and executive function (EF), and iii) teachers are filmed for a day (from which the quality of their classroom interactions can be measured), we estimate the impact of being sequentially
exposed to different levels of quality of interactions during the first 5 years of schooling. We show that: 1) teachers’ quality, as assessed by the quality of interactions with students, impacts their students’ achievement not only in math, language, but
also in EF; 2) these impacts are small but persistent; 3) impacts are similar across grades; 4) teacher quality is perfectly substitutable across grades.
Please register your participation
here.
Best regards,
Franziska Disslbacher
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Franziska Disslbacher, PhD
Assistant Professor
Institute for Spatial & Social-Ecological Transformations
&
Research Institute Economics of Inequality
WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria
CenTax Center for the Analysis of Taxation – University Warwick |
LSE International Inequalities Institute – Research Fellow |
Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality CUNY |
SOEP / DIW – Associated Researcher
World Inequality Lab PSE– Research Fellow
+43 1 313 36 6669
franziska.disslbacher@wu.ac.at