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Essays in Industrial Organization and the Economics of Education
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Suk Joon Son – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation includes three chapters on industrial organization and the economics of education, centered around New York City's public high school choice procedure. In the first chapter, I document evidence of informational frictions in the usage of the public high school choice in New York City and the patterns of racial disparities. The…
Descriptors: Public Schools, High Schools, School Choice, School Organization
Identifying a Typology of New York City Schools through Teacher Perceptions of Organizational Capacity: A Latent Class Analysis
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Duff, Megan; Bowers, Alex J. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2022
The purpose of this study is to identify a typology of school organizational capacities using teachers' perceptions of school organizational context. Employing a sample of New York City schools serving students in grades 3-8 (n = 1,289), we perform a 3-step latent class analysis (LCA). We identify six subgroups of schools: "versatile…
Descriptors: School Organization, Teacher Attitudes, Institutional Characteristics, Student Characteristics
School Organizational Contexts, Teacher Turnover, and Student Achievement: Evidence From Panel Data
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Kraft, Matthew A.; Marinell, William H.; Shen-Wei Yee, Darrick – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
We study the relationship between school organizational contexts, teacher turnover, and student achievement in New York City (NYC) middle schools. Using factor analysis, we construct measures of four distinct dimensions of school climate captured on the annual NYC School Survey. We identify credible estimates by isolating variation in…
Descriptors: School Organization, Faculty Mobility, Academic Achievement, Middle Schools
School Organizational Contexts, Teacher Turnover, and Student Achievement: Evidence from Panel Data. Working Paper
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Kraft, Matthew A.; Marinell, William H.; Yee, Darrick – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2016
We study the relationship between school organizational contexts, teacher turnover, and student achievement in New York City (NYC) middle schools. Using factor analysis, we construct measures of four distinct dimensions of school contexts captured on the annual NYC School Survey. We identify credible estimates by isolating variation in…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Academic Achievement, School Organization, Educational Environment