Claire Mackevicius

Investigating the “Draw of Home” and Teachers’ Career Decisions

Naomi L. Blaushild, Claire Mackevicius, Cora Wigger. August 2023

Topics: Staffing, Finance, and Operations

Tags: Teacher hiring and retention, Race, ethnicity, and education

Research shows that teachers seek out jobs close to home, but previous studies have been unable to test whether proximity to home is related to retention in the teaching profession. We leverage a unique dataset from Teach For America (TFA) linking individuals’ preferred teaching locations,… more →
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The Distribution of School Spending Impacts

C. Kirabo Jackson, Claire Mackevicius. July 2021

Topics: Staffing, Finance, and Operations

Tags: Efficacy, Assessment

We examine all known "credibly causal" studies to explore the distribution of the causal effects of public K-12 school spending on student outcomes in the United States. For each of the 31 included studies, we compute the same marginal spending effect parameter estimate. Precision-weighted… more →
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