Browsing Economics electronic theses and dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Podgursky, Michael John"
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Estimates of school productivity and implications for policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)School productivity was not perfectly estimated because of the sampling error and the measurement error. The traditional Ordinary Least Square (OLS) leaves the estimation of school productivity questionable. Moreover, ... -
Three essays on educator labor markets : evidence from Missouri public schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay investigates the feasibility of moving high-performing teachers to low-performing schools using administrative micro data from Missouri. I find when a teacher ...