When inputs are outputs: The case of graduate student instructorsAuthor-Name: Bettinger, Eric P

Bridget Long () and Eric S. Taylor

Economics of Education Review, 2016, vol. 52, issue C, 63-76

Abstract: We examine graduate student teaching as an input to two production processes: the education of undergraduates and the development of graduate students themselves. Using fluctuations in full-time faculty availability as an instrument, we find undergraduates are more likely to major in a subject if their first course in the subject was taught by a graduate student, a result opposite of estimates that ignore selection. Additionally, graduate students who teach more frequently graduate earlier and are more likely to subsequently be employed by a college or university.

Keywords: Higher education; Graduate student teaching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 J2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.01.005

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