Evaluating the Effect of Teacher Degree Level on Educational Performance.

Abstract

schooling issues including the productivity of private and public schools, the relative returns to educational resources, and teacher labor markets. Parts of his dissertation titled, "Public and Private High Schools: School Choice and the Consequences " have been published in Economics of Education Review, and in an upcoming article in Ph Delta Kappan. He has also worked on the issue of the effects of teacher race, gender, and ethnicity on student performance using NELS:88, published in Industrial and Labor Rela-tions Review, and more recently with Dominic Brewer on the observable and unobservable influence of teach rs on student performance, forthcoming in the