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DESCRIPTION:Evan Riehl\n\nDisparate Impacts of Teacher Certification Exams\
 n\nAbstract:  We use Texas administrative data to assess the long-standing 
 claim that teacher certification exams discriminate against underrepresente
 d minority (URM) candidates. In a regression discontinuity design\, we find
  that failing a certification exam delays entry into teaching and costs the
  average candidate $10\,000 in forgone earnings. These costs fall dispropor
 tionately on URM candidates both because they are more likely to fail and b
 ecause their earnings losses from failing are 50 percent larger on average.
  To examine whether these disparities are justified by racial/ethnic differ
 ences in teaching quality\, we develop a new measure of disparate impact an
 d estimate it using a policy change that increased the difficulty of Texas'
  elementary certification exam. The harder exam reduced the URM share of ne
 w teachers but had no significant benefits for teaching quality or student 
 achievement. Taken together\, our findings show that certification exams ha
 ve a disparate impact in the sense that they impose much larger economic co
 sts on URM teaching candidates than on white candidates with similar potent
 ial teaching quality.
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LOCATION:Ives Hall\, 105
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SUMMARY:Labor Economics Workshop:  Evan Riehl
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URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/labor-economics-workshop-evan-riehl
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