【主 题】The Lasting Impacts of Middle School Principals
【报告人】Steven G. Rivkin（教授，美国伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校）
【时 间】2023年12月20日周三10:00-11:30
【地 点】高等研究院232会议室
【语 言】英文
【摘 要】We use Texas administrative data on schooling, employment and engagement with the criminal justice system to estimate the impact of middle-school principals on post-secondary schooling, employment and criminal justice outcomes. The pattern of results highlights the importance of school leadership in the development of the skills that improve longer-term outcomes, though striking differences emerge in the relative importance of different skill dimensions to different outcomes. The estimates reveal large and highly significant effects of principal value-added to cognitive skills on college attendance, college persistence, and strong engagement to productivity activities but much weaker effects of value added to noncognitive skills and these outcomes. In contrast, there is little or no evidence that middle school principals affect the probability a male is arrested, has a guilty finding or is incarcerated by raising cognitive skills but strong evidence that they affect these outcomes through their impacts on noncognitive skills, especially those related to the probability of an out of school suspension. In addition, the principal effects on the probability of engagement in the criminal justice system are much larger for Black than for nonBlack males, corresponding to race differences in engagement with the criminal justice system.
【报告人简介】Dr. Steven G. Rivkin is a Professor of Economics and the Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also the Director of the John F. Kain Center for Education Research, Texas Schools Project at the University of Texas at Dallas and Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His areas of interest are the economics of education and labor economics, where he has published on a wide range of topics including teacher quality, school desegregation, charter schools, educator evaluation, school leadership, and academic mobility. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He currently serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Human Resources.
