AEFP 46th Annual Conference Program

March 17-19, 2021

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Concurrent Session XII - Friday, March 19, 2021 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

12.01 - Teacher Labor Market Options and Labor Supply

Educator labor markets (e.g., compensation, pensions, mobility, supply and demand)

Room: Room 1

Chair: Jane Lincove, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, jlincove@umbc.edu

Joniada Milla, Saint Mary's University. Is teaching profession a safe port?. Diana Alessandrini, St. Francis Xavier University

Jordan Berne, University of Michigan. Causes and Effects of Teacher Moonlighting: Evidence from School Finance Reforms. Brian Jacob, University of Michigan

Mary Penn, Tulane University. Charter School Reforms and the Supply of Certified Teachers. Douglas Harris, Tulane University

12.02 - The ECE workforce: Who enters and who stays and why

Early childhood

Room: Room 2

Chair: Jessica Brown, University of South Carolina, Jessica.Brown@moore.sc.edu

Justin Doromal, University of Virginia. Following the Leader: Supportive Leadership and Teacher Retention in Child Care Settings. Anna Markowitz, University of California

Todd Hall, University of Virginia. Predictors of Within-Year Teacher Turnover in Child Care Settings: New Evidence from Virginia. Justin Doromal, University of Virginia, Daphna Bassok, University of Virginia

Jessica Horst, American University. Who Enters the Early Childhood Education Workforce? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth

12.03 - Teachers' Unions and Policymaking

K-12 school politics, governance, leadership, and organizations

Room: Room 3

Chair: Tina Collins, United Federation of Teachers, ccollins@uft.org

Jason Cook, University of Utah. Rent-Seeking through Collective Bargaining: Teachers Unions and Education Production. Stephane Lavertu, The Ohio State University, Corbin Miller, U.S. Treasury

Bradley Marianno, University of Nevada - Las Vegas. Collective Bargaining Agreement Strength in Charter Schools and Traditional Public School Districts. David Woo, University of Utah, Kate Kennedy, University of Southern California

Melissa Lyon, Brown University. Progressive Coalition Building: Long Term Effects of Labor Policies on Teachers, Schools, and Social Policymaking

12.04 - Can We Learn More from New and Improved Methodologies?

Methodology, data, and other papers that do are not covered by another topic area

Room: Room 4

Chair: John Engberg, RAND Corporation, engberg@rand.org

Amanda Weissman, University of Michigan. Is machine learning a substitute for causal methods in education research?. Susan Dynarski, University of Michigan

Magdalena Bennett, The University of Texas at Austin. A Difference-in-Differences Approach using Mixed-IntegerProgramming Matching: An Application for the Effect of a Preferential School Voucher on Segregation

Sophie Litschwartz, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Characterizing Cross-Site Variation in Local Average Treatment Effects in Multisite RDD contexts with an Application to Massachusetts High School Exit Exam. Luke Miratrix, Harvard Graduate School of Education

12.05 - Factors Affecting Student Persistence in Kindergarten through Postgraduate Education

K-12 interventions and short-term outcomes (academic and non-academic)

Room: Room 5

Chair: Mimi Engel, University of Colorado, mimi.engel@vanderbilt.edu

Fulya Ersoy, Loyola Marymount University. Effects of Perceived Productivity on Study Effort: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Zitsi Mirakhur, University of Kentucky. Examining the Importance of School Context for Persisting Students. Kathryn Hill, The Research Alliance for New York City Schools, Edgar Rivera-Cash, The Research Alliance for New York City Schools

Seth Gershenson, American University. The impact of extracurricular activities on bar exam pass rates. Chris Birdsall, Boise State University

12.06 - Navigating Special Education Funding

K-12 school finance

Room: Room 6

Chair: Elizabeth Setren, Tufts University, elizabeth.setren@tufts.edu

Andrew Wade, Victoria University (Australia). Estimating the number of students with disability in schools: A school-level prediction methodology. D Steel, University of Wollongong

Elizabeth Dhuey, University of Toronto. When Money Shouldn’t Matter: The Effect of Education Spending on Special Education Identification. Tammy Kolbe, University of Vermont

Tammy Kolbe, University of Vermont. Inequities in the Distribution of Federal Aid for State and Local Special Education Programs. Elizabeth Dhuey, University of Toronto

12.07 - Non-tuition costs of college and supports

Post-secondary access, admissions, and success

Room: Room 7

Chair: Katherine Michelmore, Syracuse University, kmmichel@syr.edu

Chukwuemeka (Emeka) Ikegwuonu, St.Cloud State University. Do attitudes towards and knowledge of mandatory fees predict college student engagement in fee supported services?. Lydia Ross, Arizona State University

Nick Voorhees, University of Florida. SNAP on campus: A national study of prevalence and financial impact of theSupplemental Nutritional Assistance Program on campuses. Garam Chu, University of Florida

Tatiana Mocanu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Beyond tuition: College cost accuracy and student outcomes

12.09 - State Higher Education Spending Choices

Post-secondary finance, governance, and accountability

Room: Room 9

Chair: Robert Kelchen, Seton Hall University, robert.kelchen@shu.edu

Denisa Gándara, Southern Methodist University. Reconsidering the “Balance Wheel” Analogy: Decisions on State Funding of Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Meredith Billings, Sam Houston State University, Paul Rubin, University of Utah, Lindsey Hammond, North Carolina State University

Jacob Fowles, University of Kansas. No Man Is an Island: The Impact of Racial and Ethnic Amity on State Higher Education Spending. John Foster, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Reginald High, Campbell University. The Relationship Between State Merit- and Need-Based Aid and African American Enrollment in U.S. Higher Education Institutions. Tamara Young, North Carolina State University

12.10 - School Attendance & Inequity

Causes and consequences of inequity in education

Room: Room 10

Chair: Erica Harbatkin, Michigan State University, harbatki@msu.edu

James Mahowald, Wayne State University. The Empirical and Conceptual Relationship Between Suspensions and Chronic Absenteeism. Sarah Lenhoff, Wayne State University, Jeremy Singer, Wayne State University

Jennifer Ash, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Every Day Counts Everywhere: Examining Attendance Trends Across Rural and Urban Settings. Sidrah Baloch, Insight Education Group, Dean Kaplan, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Katherine Kieninger, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Kellie Solowski, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Walter Cook, Wayne State University. The Causal Effect of Attendance on Achievement in Detroit: An Instrumental Variables Approach. Sarah Lenhoff, Wayne State University, Ben Pogodzinski, Wayne State University, Jeremy Singer, Wayne State University

12.12 - K-12 Peer Effects: Part II

K-12 interventions and short-term outcomes (academic and non-academic)

Room: Room 12

Chair: Sean Corcoran, Vanderbilt University, sean.corcoran@vanderbilt.edu

Jonathan Presler, Saint Louis University. Obesity Peer Effects in NYC Elementary Schools

Eunhye Kwak, Korea Labor Institute. Expanding Private Tutoring of Local Peers and Students’ Study Time

Jian Zou, UIUC - Economics Department. Understanding Spillover of Peer Parental Education: Randomization Evidence and Mechanisms. Bobby Chung, UIUC - School of Labor and Employment Relations