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Kristine West

Assistant Professor of Economics, St. Catherine University
Verified email at stkate.edu
Cited by 326

Teacher pay reform and productivity: Panel data evidence from adoptions of Q-Comp in Minnesota

AJ Sojourner, E Mykerezi, KL West - Journal of Human Resources, 2014 - jhr.uwpress.org
This paper studies the impacts of teacher pay-for-performance (P4P) reforms adopted with
complementary human resource management (HRM) practices on student achievement and …

The impact of providing vision screening and free eyeglasses on academic outcomes: evidence from a randomized trial in title I elementary schools in Florida

P Glewwe, KL West, J Lee - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
More than 20 percent of all school‐aged children in the United States have vision problems,
and low‐income and minority children are disproportionately likely to have unmet vision …

New measures of teachers' work hours and implications for wage comparisons

KL West - Education Finance and Policy, 2014 - direct.mit.edu
Researchers have good data on teachers' annual salaries but a hazy understanding of
teachers’ hours of work. This makes it difficult to calculate an accurate hourly wage and leads …

Teachers' unions, compensation, and tenure

KL West - Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper I show that school districts in which teachers negotiate via collective bargaining
have greater returns to experience and grant tenure earlier than districts without collective …

Teachers' unions and compensation: The impact of collective bargaining on salary schedules and performance pay schemes

KL West, E Mykerezi - Economics of Education Review, 2011 - Elsevier
This study examines the impact that collective bargaining has on multiple dimensions of
teacher compensation, including average and starting salaries, early and late returns to …

Blurred Boundaries: A Day in the Life of a Teacher

VH Gibney, KL West, S Gershenson - Time Use in Economics, 2023 - emerald.com
The burnout, stress, and work-life balance challenges faced by teachers have received
renewed interest due to the myriad disruptions and changes to K-12 schooling brought about by …

Field of study and earnings inequality among the highly educated: 1993-2010

JA Ritter, KL West - 2014 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Field of study specializes individuals’ human capital in ways that might be either substitutable
or complementary to technological change. We study changes in the earnings distribution …

[BOOK][B] Essays on teacher labor markets

KL West - 2012 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation is comprised of three essays related to teacher labor markets. The first
essay describes a theoretical model which incorporates an oft overlooked fact of educational …

Changes in the craniofacial complex from adolescence to midadulthood: a cephalometric study

KS West, JA McNamara Jr - American Journal of Orthodontics and …, 1999 - Elsevier
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate cephalometrically the craniofacial growth
changes and adjustments that occur from late adolescence to midadulthood in persons who …

[PDF][PDF] Minnesota Judicial State Court Salaries

E Kula, KL West - 2020 - lcc.mn.gov
This report is a follow-up to a 2016 report where we recommended increases of 4.63% for
2017 and 2018, which would have corresponded to 3% real increases when adjusted for …