Economics Seminar Series with Anthony Yim

Anthony Yim is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on labor economics, applied econometrics, and the economics of education, with emphasis on estimating post-secondary instructor value-added and the effects of educational policies on student outcomes. He is the author of the forthcoming article “How Early Morning Classes Change Academic Trajectories” in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and has additional research examining college course access, grade inflation, and the impacts of teacher characteristics on student outcomes.

This seminar will discuss theoretical and empirical research on post-secondary instructor impacts, focusing on three main topics: i) developing a generalizable method for estimating instructor value-added that accounts for student selection using prior course histories; ii) applying this method to measure instructor effects on both next-semester GPA and post-college earnings across a large sample of universities, including Purdue University and nearly all public universities in Texas; iii) evaluating the relationship between value-added estimates and traditional student evaluations, and exploring the potential gains from using value-added measures in instructor retention and personnel decisions