2009
Educating the Public
William G. Howell and Martin R. West
The Impact of College Graduation on Geographic Mobility: Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk
Ofer Malamud and Abigail Wozniak
Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children
Jens Ludwig and Brian Jacob, PhD’01
Selection Bias in College Admissions Test Scores
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Melissa Clark, and Jesse Rothstein
2008
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Predictors of Success in Adult Education Programs: Evidence from Experimental Data with Low-Income Welfare Recipients
Ariel Kalil and Lindsey Leininger
Discovering One’s Talent: Learning from Academic Specialization
Ofer Malamud
The Effect of Postponing Tracking on Access to Higher Education: Evidence from a Regression-Discontinuity Design
Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches
Growing Pains: The School Consolidation Movement and Student Outcomes
Christopher Berry and Martin West
Is the Price Right? Probing Americans’ Knowledge of School Spending
William G. Howell and Martin R. West
Left Behind by Design: Proficiency Counts and Test-Based Accountability
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Derek Neal
What Americans Think about Their Schools
William Howell, Martin West, and Paul Peterson
2007
The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility: Evidence from the Vietnam Generation
Ofer Malamud
What Have Researchers Learned from Project STAR?
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
2006
The Divergence of Human Capital Levels across Cities
Christopher Berry and Edward Glaeser
Enrollment Levels in Institutions of Higher Education: Are State Lotteries Making a Difference in the American States?
Rodney E. Stanley and P. Edward French
The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility: Evidence from GI Bill Recipients
Ofer Malamud and Abigail Waggoner
Methods To Analyze Education Data
Colm O'Muircheartaigh, Larry Hedges, and Barbara Schneider
Resource and Peer Impacts on Girls’ Academic Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
School Finance Judgments and Spending on Education: A Review of the Evidence
Christopher Berry
Vocational Training versus General Education: Evidence from an Educational Reform in Romania
Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches
2005
The Chicago School Readiness Project
C. Cybele Raver
Curriculum Breadth or General Studies? A Reexamination of Alternative Approaches to General Education in English Secondary Schools
Ofer Malamud
The Effect of Vocational Training on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from an Educational Reform in Romania
Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches
Finding Better Ways Analyze Education Data
Colm O'Muircheartaigh, Larry Hedges, and Barbara Schneider
Following in Their Parents’ Footsteps
Ariel Kalil, J. Levine, and K. Ziol-Guest
The Impact of Community College Retraining on Older, Displaced Workers: Should We Teach Old Dogs New Tricks?
Robert LaLonde, Louis Jacobson, and Daniel Sullivan
Location-Specific Human Capital, Migration, and Amenities
Douglas Krupka
Making Connections Survey
Colm O'Muircheartaigh
Parental Job Loss and Children’s Academic Performance
Ariel Kalil and K. Ziol-Guest
Retrospective Voting in Single Function Elections: School Boards, Test Scores, and Incumbents’ Electoral Fortunes
Christopher Berry and William Howell
School Size and Returns to Education: Evidence from the Consolidation Movement, 1930–1970
Christopher Berry
Three Essays on Social Determinants of Child Health and Education in India: Progress towards Answers to Enduring Questions
Ankur Sarin
2004
The Allocation of Food Expenditure in Single and Married-Parent Families
Thomas DeLeire, Ariel Kalil, and Kathleen Ziol-Guest
Children’s Cognitive Skill Development in Britain and the United States
Robert Michael
Emotions Matter: A Longitudinal Study of the Impact of Classroom-Based Integrated Intervention on Low-Income Children’s School Readiness
C. Cybele Raver
School Lunches and Childhood Obesity
Diane Whitmore
2003
Emotions Matter: Making the Case for the Role of Young Children’s Emotional Development for Early School-Readiness
C. Cybele Raver
Family Influence on Children’s Verbal Ability
Robert T. Michael
Intergenerational Assests and the Black/White Test Score Gap
Ariel Kalil, Mary Pattillo, and M. Payne
Perceptions of the School Psychological Environment in Predicting Teenage Mothers’ Educational Expectations
Ariel Kalil
Promising Alternative or Dangerous Experiment? Framing the Debate over Economic School Integration Policies
Chloe R. Hutchinson
Ready to Enter: What Research Tells Policymakers about Strategies to Promote Social and Emotional School-Readiness among Three- and Four-Year-Old Children
C. Cybele Raver and Jane Knitzer
Would Smaller Classes Help Close the Black-White Achievement Gap?
Diane Whitmore and Alan Krueger
2002
Book Excerpt: Education Policy for the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities in Standards-Based Reform
Lawrence B. Joseph
The Effects of Small Classes on Achievement: The results of the Tennessee Class Size Experiment
Larry Hedges, Barbara Nye, and Spyros Konstantopoulos
An Empirical Assessment of Lottery Proceeds on Education in the American States
Rodney E. Stanley and P. Edward French
Exploring Education Innovations that Last: An Annotated First Person Narrative Turning Practice into Theory
James S. Catterall
Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed?
Susan Mayer and Leonard Lopoo
How Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect Children's Educational Attainment?
Susan Mayer
The Influence of High-Stakes Testing on Teacher Behavior and Instructional Practice
Robin Tepper
Measuring Social Capital and its Economic Impact
John Durkin
The Returns to Community College Schooling for Displaced Workers
Louis Jacobson, Robert LaLonde, and Daniel Sullivan
The Role of Early Childhood Education in Current Federal Education Policy: Ensuring Future Academic Success through High Quality Language and Cognitive Experiences for Young Children in Poverty
Jennifer Guerrero Flood
Schooling and Training Participation by Displaced Workers: Evidence from Administrative Data
Louis Jacobson, Robert J. LaLonde, and Daniel Sullivan
Using Converging Evidence in Policy Formation
Larry Hedges
Why I'll be Voting Against the Education Bill
Jim Jeffords
2001
Economic Inequality in the United States
Susan Mayer
An Economic Model of Locus of Control and the Human Capital Investment Decision
Thomas DeLeire and Margo Coleman
Income Inequality, Economic Segregation and Children's Educational Attainment
Susan Mayer
Three Essays on Education and Urban School Reform
Brian Jacob
1997
Homo Commoditus: The Concept of Human Capital as a Strategy for Cultural Regeneration
Dwight D. Allman
School Choice, Education Policy and Legal Theory: Uncomfortable Yet Inevitable Intersections
Michael Heise
Small Schools and Human Capital
Alexander Polikoff and Stacey Marcus
Sorting Effects of Family School Choice: When Parents Choose, Do Tax-Payers lose?
Steven Glazerman
