Methodology, Measurement
Journal Articles
Under what assumptions do Site-by-Treatment instruments identify average causal effects? Sociological Methods and Research, Forthcoming.
Estimating achievement gaps from test scores reported in ordinal 'Proficiency' categoriesJournal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 37(4), pp. 489-517. 2012.
Measuring the strength of teachers' unions: An empirical application of the partial independence item response approachJournal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 35(6), pp. 629-670. 2010.
Assumptions of value‐added models for estimating school effectsEducation Finance and Policy, 4(4), pp. 492-519. 2009.
Beyond the census tract: Patterns and determinants of racial residential segregation at multiple scalesAmerican Sociological Review, 73(5), pp. 766‐791. 2008.
Using experimental economics to measure the effects of a natural educational experiment on AltruismJournal of Public Economics, 90(8-9), pp. 1625-1648. 2006.
Retail tobacco outlet density and youth smoking: A propensity modeling approachAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2006.
The early childhood classroom observation measureEarly Childhood Research Quarterly, 19(3), pp. 375-397. 2004.
The contribution of administrative and experimental data to education policy researchNational Tax Journal, 56(2), pp. 415-438. 2003.
Data watch: Research data in the economics of educationJournal of Economic Perspectives, 13(3), pp. 205-216. 1999.
OPTI: A measure of children's optimismEducational and Psychological Measurement, 41, pp. 131-143. 1981.
Working Papers
Books: Books, Chapters, Reviews
Instrumental variablesIn B. McGaw, P. Peterson & E. Baker (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education, 8-Volume Set, 3rd Edition, Elsevier, Elsevier Press, pp. 223-228. 2010.
The role of research in educational improvement. John D. Bransford, Deborah Stipek, Nancy J. Vye, Louis M. Gomez, Diana Lam. Cambridge MA: Harvard Education Press, 2009.
An economic approach to education policy implementationIn M. Honig (Ed.), Defining the Field of Education Policy Implementation, State University of New York Press, 2006.
A conceptual framework for measuring segregation and its association with population outcomesIn J. Michael Oakes & Jay S. Kaufman (Eds.), Methods in Social Epidemiology, pp. 169‐192. 2006.
Evaluating educational interventions in developing countriesIn J. E. Cohen, D. E. Bloom & M. B. Malin (Eds.), Educating All Children: A Global Agenda, MIT Press, pp. 355-386. 2006.
Coding geographic areas across census years: Creating consistent definitions of metropolitan areasNBER Working Paper No. 6772, 1997.
