Dear All, Please find below the invitation to the IN PERSON CEU Economic Seminar Series (CESS) presentation. Pedro Carneiro will talk about: ‘Do Teacher Behaviors Predict Achievement, Executive Function, and Non-Cognitive Outcomes in Elementary School?’ (with A. Campos, Y. Cruz-Aguayo, C. Echeverri and N. Schady) Time and venue: April 23, Tuesday, 11.15am – 12.30pm, at Quellenstrasse 51 (Vienna), QS B-505. Abstract: We use an experiment with five consecutive rounds of random assignment and almost perfect compliance to estimate how the quality of teacher-child interactions affects child outcomes throughout elementary school. We estimate linear and CES production functions for different skills, where inputs are the quality of the teacher-child interactions in each grade. We find modest impacts of teacher behaviors on math and language achievement, and executive function, which similar across grades. These impacts fade-out over time, except for kindergarten teachers, for whom impacts increase over time. The quality of teacher-child interactions is highly substitutable across grades. Finally, we show that children do not exert more effort at school or read more at home in response to differences in teacher quality, and teachers do not exhibit different behaviors when, by chance, they are randomly assigned to children of varying characteristics. Please sign up for the seminar at this link<https://forms.office.com/e/98yh0rNE51> till 12pm, the day before the seminar! [A person smiling for a picture Description automatically generated] Best, Mats
