Let’s Stay Together: the Effects of Repeated Student-Teacher Matches on Academic Achievement

Facundo Albornoz, David Contreras Gomez and Richard Upward

No 198, Working Papers from Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE)

Abstract: We explore the effectiveness of repeating the student-teacher match on test scores, for the universe of 8th graders in Chile using information on all student-teacher matches across multiple subjects and years, and a national, anonymous measure of test scores. We exploit a plausibly exogenous source of variation in the process of repeating matches generated by a discontinuity in teacher retention at the legal retirement age. Repeating matches has a robust positive effect on test scores which aggregates up to the student, class, and schoollevel. As channels, we report a positive effect on attendance, progression, student behaviour and teacher expectations.

Keywords: student-teacher matches; student achievement; looping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2022-11
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