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William Delgado
The Contributions of School and Neighborhood Factors to Student Attendance Following the COVID-19 Pandemic
Topics: Student Well-BeingStudent attendance remains well below pre-COVID pandemic levels, yet districts lack evidence about which levers are most influential. Whether school and neighborhood contexts still account for meaningful variation in attendance, especially for students with weaker attendance histories, is an… more →
School Impacts on Absenteeism in the High School Grades following the COVID-19 Pandemic: Identifying School Factors and Strategies for Improvement
Topics: Families and CommunitiesChronic absenteeism has increased sharply in U.S. high schools following the COVID-19 pandemic, with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) mirroring national trends. Although student attendance has long been recognized as a critical factor in academic success, persistently high chronic absenteeism rates… more →
Classroom Composition Affects Teacher Performance Ratings
Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentTeacher evaluations should reflect teaching performance rather than the characteristics of the students assigned to a teacher. Exploiting naturally occurring year-to-year variation in classroom composition within teachers, this paper examines whether teacher performance ratings assigned by… more →
Disparate Teacher Effects, Comparative Advantage, and Match Quality
Topics: MethodsDoes student-teacher match quality exist? While prior research documents disparities in teachers' impacts across student types, it has not distinguished between sorting and causal effects as the drivers of these disparities. I develop a flexible disparate value-added model (DVA) and introduce a… more →