The biomedical imaging career path represents opportunities for middle-class incomes but does not have a population-representative diverse work force either locally or nationally. Workers are stratified by gender and race in the field of biomedical imaging. Our research project examines this field with the aim of better understanding both sides of hiring: how potential employees learn […]
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandated the educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA), a performance-based assessment to evaluate teaching readiness, as a licensure requirement since July 2015. In the previous reports, we find that edTPA had negative impacts on new teachers and their students in Illinois. This report seeks to generalize the findings to […]
In 2015 Illinois mandated the education Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA), a performance-based assessment to evaluate teaching readiness, as a part of the teacher licensure requirements. The new requirement aimed to benefit student learning by improving the teaching effectiveness of prospective teachers. This report estimates the effect of teachers hired after 2015 when edTPA was implemented […]
The Illinois State Broad of Education (ISBE) mandated Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA), a performance-based assessment to evaluate teaching readiness, as a part of the licensure requirements since July 2015. The new examination imposed significant monetary ($300-$1,200 per applicant) and time investments, which had a disproportionate effect on minority prospective teacher candidates. The impact of the […]
Nurse practitioners (NP) are well-trained health care personnel for primary, acute, and specialty care in the US. However, 32 states have restrictions on their scope of practice and Illinois is one of them. In response to the shortage of health care workers during the coronavirus pandemic, twenty-one states granted NP full practice authority to cope […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the U.S. economy in an unprecedented way. About 20.5 million people have lost their jobs. In April the unemployment rate had already skyrocketed to 14.7%. In this report, we chronicle the employment conditions, health insurance coverage, and wages of Illinois’ vulnerable undocumented immigrant workers. We then propose adopting a form […]
In 2011, the State of Illinois increased the training hours of a real estate license. This rule applies to both new applicants and existing real estate agents. We find that the law causes a 17% decrease in real estate employment, mainly driven by a one-time exit of existing badly-behaved agents. However, the change in the […]
Occupational licensing is a governmental credential for a worker to practice legally in a profession, affecting 25% of the U.S. workforce. This report quantifies the rigidity effect of licensing using the employment fluctuation data in Illinois from 2005 to 2018. The impact of licensing also reduces job loss by one-third during a contracting economy. In […]