A Framework for Using Value-Added in Regressions
As increasingly popular metrics of worker and institutional quality, estimated value-added (VA) measures are now widely used as dependent or explanatory variables in regressions. For example, VA is used as an explanatory variable when examining the relationship between teacher VA and students' long-run outcomes. Due to the multi-step nature of VA estimation, the standard errors (SEs) researchers routinely use when including VA measures in OLS regressions are incorrect. In this paper, I show that the assumptions underpinning VA models naturally lead to a generalized method of moments (GMM) framework. Using this insight, I construct correct SEs' for regressions that use VA as an explanatory variable and for regressions where VA is the outcome. In addition, I identify the causes of incorrect SEs when using OLS, discuss the need to adjust SEs under different sets of assumptions, and propose a more efficient estimator for using VA as an explanatory variable. Finally, I illustrate my results using data from North Carolina, and show that correcting SEs results in an increase that is larger than the impact of clustering SEs.
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