Papers Published and Forthcoming
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"Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools" (with Douglas O. Staiger, Thomas J. Kane, and Eric S. Taylor), forthcoming, American Economic Review |
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"Worker Absence and Productivity: Evidence from Teaching" (with Mariesa Herrmann), forthcoming, Journal of Labor Economics |
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"Does Menstruation Explain Gender Gaps in Work Absenteeism?" (with
Mariesa Herrmann), forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources |
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"Organizing Schools to Improve Student Achievement: Start Times, Grade Configurations, And Teaching Assignments" (with Brian Jacob) The Hamilton Project, September 2011 |
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"Do Sex Offender Registration and Notifications Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?" (with JJ Prescott), Journal of Law and Economics, 2011, 54(1): 161-206 |
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"Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One?" (with Brian Jacob, Thomas Kane, and Douglas Staiger), Education Finance and Policy, 2011, 6(1): 43-74 |
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"Searching for Effective Teachers with Imperfect Information " (with Douglas Staiger), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2010, 24(3): pp. 97-118 |
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"Stuck in the Middle: Impacts of Grade Configuration in Public Schools" (with Benjamin B. Lockwood), Journal of Public Economics, 2010 94(11-12): 1051-1061. |
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"Local Response to Fiscal Incentives in Heterogeneous Communities," Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68(2): 138-147 |
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"Subjective and Objective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from New York City" (with Cecilia Speroni), Labour Economics, 2011, 18: 687-696 |
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"Subjective and Objective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness" (with Cecilia Speroni), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 100(2): 261–66, this is the shorter verison of the Labour Economics article |
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"Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality" (with Lesley J. Turner), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2010, 2(4): 119-147 |
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"Field Experiments in Class Size from the Early Twentieth Century," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2009, 23(4): 211-230 |
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"What Does Certification Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City" (with Thomas Kane and Douglas Staiger), Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27(6),615-631 |
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"The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools," (with Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff) Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2008, 27(4), 793-818 |
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Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values from Megan's Laws (with Leigh Linden), American Economic Review, 2008, 98(3), 1103-1127 |
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"The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence from Panel Data," American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2004. |
Working Papers
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"The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood," (with
Raj Chetty and John Friedman), |
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"Do Menstrual Problems Explain Gender Gaps in Absenteeism and Earnings? Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey" (with
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"Rules and Discretion in the Evaluation of Students and Schools: The Case of the New York Regents Examinations"(with Thomas S. Dee, Brian A. Jacob and Justin McCrary) |
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"Under Pressure: Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools Under NCLB" (with Randall Reback and Heather Schwartz) |
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"School Principals and School Performance" (with Damon Clark and Paco Martorell) |
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"The Impact of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: A Study of Students Who Attend Schools Chartered by the Chicago Charter School Foundation" (with Caroline M. Hoxby); Executive Summary |
Case Studies
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"Walt Disney's Sale of ABC Radio: Structuring a Tax-Efficient Divestiture" (with Ira Weiss) |
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-Link to abstract on Columbia Caseworks |
