Teacher Effects and Teacher Related Policies
The emergence of large longitudinal data sets linking students to teachers has led to rapid growth in the study of teacher effects on student outcomes by economists over the past decade. One large...
View ArticleThe Effects of School Spending on Educational and Economic Outcomes: Evidence...
Since Coleman (1966), many have questioned whether school spending affects student outcomes. The school finance reforms that began in the early 1970s and accelerated in the 1980s caused some of the...
View ArticleAbility-Grouping and Academic Inequality: Evidence From Rule-Based Student...
In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools after fifth grade based on achievement tests, leading to large differences in the school environments to which students of differing...
View ArticleDo Students Benefit From Attending Better Schools?: Evidence From Rule-based...
In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools after fifth grade based on achievement tests, leading to large differences in the school environments to which students of differing...
View ArticleDo Social Connections Reduce Moral Hazard? Evidence from the New York City...
We investigate the role of social networks in aligning the incentives of agents in settings with incomplete contracts. We study the New York City taxi industry where taxis are often leased and...
View ArticleOne for the Road: Public Transportation, Alcohol Consumption, and Intoxicated...
We exploit arguably exogenous train schedule changes in Washington DC to investigate the relationship between public transportation provision, the risky decision to consume alcohol, and the criminal...
View ArticleRecruiting, Retaining, and Creating Quality Teachers
This article synthesizes the research literature on how to ensure that the teaching workforce is effective. It offers three approaches to improving effectiveness: attract talented individuals into the...
View ArticleSingle-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, and Course Selection: Evidence from...
Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases because students who attend single-sex schools differ in unmeasured ways from those who do not. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned...
View ArticleNon-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from 9th...
This paper presents a model where teacher effects on long-run outcomes reflect effects on both cognitive skills (measured by test-scores) and non-cognitive skills (measured by non-test-score outcomes)....
View ArticleWhat Do Test Scores Miss? The Importance of Teacher Effects on Non-Test Score...
This paper extends the traditional test-score value-added model of teacher quality to allow for the possibility that teachers affect a variety of student outcomes through their effects on both...
View ArticleSimplifying Teaching: A Field Experiment with Online "Off-the Shelf" Lessons
We analyze an experiment in which middle-school math teachers in three school districts were randomly given access to "off-the-shelf" lessons designed to develop students' deep understanding of math...
View ArticleThe Effect of Single-Sex Education on Academic Outcomes and Crime: Fresh...
In 2010, the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago converted 20 low-performing pilot secondary schools from coed to single-sex. I exploit these conversions to identify the causal effect of...
View ArticleA Little Now for a Lot Later: A Look at a Texas Advanced Placement Incentive...
The Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program pays both students and teachers for passing grades on Advanced Placement (AP) exams. The program was implemented in schools serving primarily low-income,...
View ArticleSchool Competition and Teacher Labor Markets: Evidence from Charter School...
I analyze changes in teacher turnover, hiring, effectiveness, and salaries at traditional public schools after the opening of a nearby charter school. While I find small effects on turnover overall,...
View ArticleCan Higher-Achieving Peers Explain the Benefits to Attending Selective...
Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers, I obtain credible estimates of (1) the effect of attending schools with higher-achieving peers, and (2)...
View ArticleDo College-Prep Programs Improve Long-Term Outcomes?
This paper presents an analysis of the longer-run effects of a college-preparatory program implemented in inner-city schools that provided teacher training in addition to payments to eleventh- and...
View ArticlePer Pupil Spending 1976 through 2010
This data-set has the raw annual district-level per-pupil spending data used in Jackson, Johnson, and Persico (2016). Note that these data report school spending in 2010 dollars.
View ArticleReducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start...
We explore whether early childhood human-capital investments are complementary to those made later in life. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we compare the adult outcomes of cohorts who were...
View ArticleReplication code for JPE
This files contains all the code required to replicate the findings in Jackson, C. Kirabo. (forthcoming) "What Do Test Scores Miss? The Importance of Teacher Effects on Non-Test Score Outcomes" Journal...
View ArticleDo School Spending Cuts Matter? Evidence from the Great Recession
Audits of public school budgets routinely find evidence of waste. Also, recent evidence finds that when school budgets are strained, public schools can employ cost-saving measures with no ill-effect on...
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