The academic and labor market returns of university professors

Michela Braga (), Marco Paccagnella and Michele Pellizzari

No 981, Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) from Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area

Abstract: This paper estimates the impact of university teachers on their students� academic achievement and labor market outcomes using administrative data from Bocconi University matched with Italian tax records. The estimation exploits the random allocation of students to teachers in a fixed sequence of compulsory courses. We find that the academic and labor market returns of teachers are only mildly positively correlated and that the professors who are best at improving the academic achievement of their best students are not always also the ones who boost their students� earnings the most, especially for the least able students.

Keywords: teacher quality; higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 M55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab and nep-sog
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