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Book/Printed Material What do parents value in education? and empirical investigation of parents' revealed preferences for teachers

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Title

  • What do parents value in education? and empirical investigation of parents' revealed preferences for teachers

Summary

  • "This paper examines revealed parent preferences for their children's education using a unique data set that includes the number of parent requests for individual elementary school teachers along with information on teacher attributes including principal reports of teacher characteristics that are typically unobservable. We find that, on average, parents strongly prefer teachers that principals describe as good at promoting student satisfaction and place relatively less value on a teacher's ability to raise standardized math or reading achievement. These aggregate effects, however, mask striking differences across family demographics. Families in higher poverty schools strongly value student achievement and are essentially indifferent to the principal's report of a teacher's ability to promote student satisfaction. The results are reversed for families in higher-income schools"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

Names

  • Jacob, Brian Aaron
  • Lefgren, Lars
  • National Bureau of Economic Research

Created / Published

  • Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, c2005.

Headings

  • -  Education, Elementary
  • -  Educational surveys
  • -  Parents--Attitudes
  • -  School children--Attitudes

Notes

  • -  Title from PDF file as viewed on 7/22/2005.
  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Also available in print.
  • -  Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  • -  System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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  • HB1

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2005618427

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Jacob, Brian Aaron, Lars Lefgren, and National Bureau Of Economic Research. What Do Parents Value in Education? and Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005618427/.

APA citation style:

Jacob, B. A., Lefgren, L. & National Bureau Of Economic Research. (2005) What Do Parents Value in Education? and Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005618427/.

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Jacob, Brian Aaron, Lars Lefgren, and National Bureau Of Economic Research. What Do Parents Value in Education? and Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2005618427/>.