Jian Zou
Financial Deregulation, School Finance, and Student Achievement
Tags: EquityThis paper studies how school spending impacts student achievement by exploiting the US interstate branching deregulation as state tax revenue shocks. Leveraging school finance data from universal school districts, our difference-in-differences estimation reveals that deregulation leads to an… more →
The Peer Effect of Persistence on Student Achievement
Topics: Families and CommunitiesLittle is known about the impact of peer personality on human capital formation. The paper studies the impact of peers’ persistence, a personality trait reflecting perseverance in the face of challenges and setbacks, on student achievement. Exploiting student-classroom random assignments in middle… more →
Teacher Licensing, Teacher Supply, and Student Achievement: Nationwide Implementation of edTPA
Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentThe debate on the stringency of licensure exams for prospective public school teachers is on-going, including the recent controversial roll-out of the educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA). We leverage the quasi-experimental setting of different adoption timing by states and analyze… more →