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Dan Goldhaber; Cyrus Grout; Malcolm Wolff – Education Finance and Policy, 2025
While the practice of collecting information from applicants' professional references is widespread, there is a paucity of research linking references' assessments of applicants to subsequent performance. In this paper, we examine the predictive validity of a specific type of reference-provided information: categorical ratings of teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Social Networks, Job Applicants
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Yuanmo He; Milena Tsvetkova – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
The rise of social media has opened countless opportunities to explore social science questions with new data and methods. However, research on socioeconomic inequality remains constrained by limited individual-level socioeconomic status (SES) measures in digital trace data. Following Bourdieu, we argue that the commercial and entertainment…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Web Sites, Social Media, Reputation