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Academic Positions Held:
Columbia University, Graduate School of Business
            Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business, 2010- Present
            Associate Professor, 2008 – 2009
            Assistant Professor, 2004 – 2007
           
Courses Taught:
Managerial Economics (for MBA) 2010, 2009
Taxes and Business Strategy (for MBA and Executive MBA) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
 
Education:
Ph.D. Economics, Harvard University, 2004
B.A. Economics, Amherst College, 1997
 
Articles Published and Accepted for Publication:
“Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools” (with Douglas Staiger, Thomas Kane, and Eric Taylor), American Economic Review (forthcoming)

“Worker Absence and Productivity: Evidence from Teaching” (with Mariesa Herrmann), Journal of Labor Economics, (forthcoming)

“Does Menstruation Explain Gender Gaps in Work Absenteeism?” (with Mariesa Herrmann), Journal of Human Resources, (forthcoming)

“Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?” (with JJ Prescott) Journal of Law and Economics, 2011.

“Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One?” (with Brian Jacob, Thomas Kane, and Douglas Staiger) Education Finance and Policy, Winter 2011

“Subjective and Objective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness” (with Cecilia Speroni) Labour Economics (forthcoming); shorter version in: American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2010.

“Stuck in the Middle: Impacts of Grade Configuration in Public Schools” (with Benjamin Lockwood), Journal of Public Economics, December 2010

“Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality” (with Lesley Turner), American Economic Journal, Economic Policy, November 2010

“Local Response to Fiscal Incentives in Heterogeneous Communities,” Journal of Urban Economics, September 2010

"Searching for Effective Teachers with Imperfect Information" (with Douglas Staiger), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2010

“Subjective and Objective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness” (with Cecilia Speroni) American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2010

“Field Experiments in Class Size from the Early Twentieth Century,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2009
 
“What Does Certification Tell us about Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City,” Economics of Education Review, December 2008. (with Thomas J. Kane and Douglas O. Staiger)
 
“The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Fall 2008. (with Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff)
 
 “Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values from Megan’s Laws,” American Economic Review, July 2008 (with Leigh Linden)
 
“The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence from Panel Data,” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2004.

Other Publications:
“Organizing Schools to Improve Student Achievement: Start Times, Grade Configurations, and Teaching Assignments,” (with Brian Jacob) The Hamilton Project, September 2011.

“Moving Mountains in New York City: Joel Klein's Legacy by the Numbers,” (with James S. Liebman) Education Week, December 2010.

“Stuck in the Middle” (with Benjamin Lockwood), Education Next, Fall 2010.

“Photo Finish: Which Teachers Are Better? Certification Status Isn’t Going to Tell Us,” (with Thomas J. Kane and Douglas O. Staiger) Education Next, Winter 2007.

“The Truth about Charter Schools: Findings from the City of Big Shoulders”, (with Caroline Hoxby) Education Next, Fall 2005.
 
Working Papers:
“Rules and Discretion in the Evaluation of Students and Schools: The Case of the New York Regents Examinations” (with Tom Dee, Brian Jacob, and Justin McCrary)

“Under Pressure: Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools under NCLB” (with Randall Reback and Heather Schwartz)

“School Principals and School Performance” (with Damon Clark and Francisco Martorell)

“Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City”

“The Impact of Charter Schools on Student Achievement,” (with Caroline Hoxby)
 
Grants/Fellowships:
Columbia Business School, “Selecting for Social Intelligence: Admissions Measures, MBA Student Performance, and Early Career Trajectory” (2010)

U.S. Department of Education, i3 Grant Competition, “School of One” Evaluation Component (2010)

Smith Richardson Foundation, “Accountability and the Allocation of School Resources: Evidence from Micro-Data” (2009)

U.S. Department of Education, Institute for Education Sciences, “The Effects of No Child Left Behind on Student Outcomes and School Services” (2009)

Educational Finance Research Consortium, “The Impact of Teaching Disruptions on Student Achievement in New York City” (2008)

Spencer Foundation, “Effects of No Child Left Behind on School Services and Student Outcomes” (2008) Smith Richardson Foundation Public Policy Research Fellowship, “Identifying and Improving the Effectiveness of New Teachers” (2007)

Chiles Fellowship, Harvard University Economics Department; Dissertation Fellowship, Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Kennedy School of Government (2003)

Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Amherst College Graduate Studies Fellowship (2002)

Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Health Care and Aging, NBER (1999)

 
University Seminars:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2011), New York University (2011, 2009, 2007), Carnegie Mellon (2011), University of Missouri (2011), University of Florida (2011), Stanford University (2010), Harvard University (2010), University of Virginia (2010, 2004), Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance (2009, 2004), Brookings Institution (2009), Virginia Tech (2009), London School of Economics (2009), Universidad de San Andres (2009), Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (2009), Yale University (2008), Wharton Business School (2008, 2004), Cornell University (2008), University of Maryland Baltimore County (2008), University of Michigan (2007), Chicago GSB (2007), Syracuse University (2007), Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2007, 2004), Australian National University (2007), Brown University (2007), UC Berkeley (2006), UC Santa Cruz (2006), USC (2006), University of Maryland (2006), Rutgers University (2006), Hunter College (2006), Federal Reserve Board of Governors (2004), Dartmouth College (2004), University of Rochester (2004)

Conference Presentations:
NBER Summer Institute (2011, 2010, 2009, 2006, 2005, 2004), American Economic Association Annual Meeting (2011, 2010, 2009, 2004), Association for Public Policy and Management Annual Meeting (2010, 2009, 2006, 2005), American Educational Finance Association Annual Meeting (2010), Workshop on Frontiers in Economics of Education–University of Tel Aviv (2010), New York State Education Finance Research Consortium (2009), Research Institute of Industrial Economics, IFN (2009), NBER Economics of Education Program Meeting (2008, 2004), University of Maryland Crime and Population Dynamics Summer Workshop (2008, 2007), NBER Working Group on Crime (2007), American Law and Economics Meetings (2007), Canadian Law and Economics Meetings (2007), Economics of Teacher Quality Conference–Australian National University (2007)

Conference Discussions:
American Economic Association Annual Meeting (2011, 2010, 2009), American Educational Finance Association Annual Meeting (2010), Association for Public Policy and Management Annual Meeting (2010, 2009, 2007, 2006), Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance Merit Pay Conference (2010), NYC Education Reform Retrospective (2010), NBER Cities and Entrepreneurship Conference (2009), NBER Summer Institute (2009, 2005), UNC Tax Symposium (2007), Future of Children (2006)

Other Presentations:
New York State Regents (2010), Gates Foundation Strategic Data Project (2010), Schoolnet Inc (2010), Learning to Teach (2010), Edvoice (2009), Teachers College Summer Principals Academy (2009, 2008), New Teacher Center (2008), NYC Teacher Quality Workshop (2008), New Teacher Project (2008)
 
Professional Affiliations and Activities:
Faculty Research Fellow, NBER Economics of Education and Public Economics Programs

Referee: Institute of Education Sciences, National Science Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation.

Reviewer: American Economic Review, AEJ Applied Economics, AEJ Economic Policy, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Economics of Education Review, Education Next, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Education Finance and Policy, Institute of Education Sciences, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Labour Economics, National Science Foundation, National Tax Journal, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Law and Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Science, Smith Richardson Foundation, Southern Economic Journal.

Outside Activities:
Advisory Positions: New York State Regents Task Force on Teacher and Principal Effectiveness (Research Advisor), Schoolnet Inc. (Advisor), U.S. DOE Technical Working Group on the Teacher Quality Distribution Study by Mathematica Inc. (Member), Teach For America Research Advisory Panel (Member), American Enterprise Institute Future of American Education Working Group (Member)

Presentations: New York State Department of Education (2011, 2010), Gates Foundation Strategic Data Project (2010), Schoolnet Inc. (2010), Learning to Teach (2010), Edvoice (2009), Teachers College Summer Principals Academy (2009, 2008), New Teacher Center, UC Santa Cruz (2008), NYC Teacher Quality Workshop (2008), New Teacher Project (2008)

School/University Service:
Organizer, Microeconomics Faculty Lunch, (2010, 2009, 2008)
Co-organizer, Applied Microeconomics Seminar, (2010, 2009, 2008, 2007)
Columbia Doctoral Dissertation Committees: Cecilia Speroni (2011), Johannes Schmieder (2010); Yinghua He, (2010); Fang He (2010); Joshua Goodman, (2009); Ting Wu, (2008); Allison Schrager, (2006)
Panel Moderator, Columbia Business School Social Enterprise Conference (2010, 2007, 2006)
Speaker, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, NY Times Institute Fellowship on Education Reporting, (2010)
Speaker, Nonprofit Leadership Forum, CBS Social Enterprise Program (2010)
Columbia University Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Seed Grant Committee (2010)
Co-organizer, Conference on “Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Inclusion” (2009, in Buenos Aires)
Columbia Business School Microeconomics Recruiting Committee, (2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005)
University Senate, Untenured Representative from the Business School, (2007, 2006)
University Senate, Alumni Relations Committee, (2007, 2006)