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Working Papers

Working Papers

SMART Money: Do Financial Incentives Encourage College Students to Study Science? Brent Evans. 2013.
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Is a Good Teacher a Good Teacher for All? Comparing Value-Added of Teachers with Their English Learners and Non-English Learners. Susanna Loeb, James Soland, Lindsay Fox. 2013.
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Effective Instructional Time Use for School Leaders: Longitudinal Evidence from Observations of Principals. Jason Grissom, Susanna Loeb, Benjamin Master. 2013.
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Principal time management skills: Explaining patterns in principals' time use and effectiveness. Jason Grissom, Susanna Loeb, Hajime Mitani. 2013.
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What is effective instructional leadership? Longitudinal evidence from observations of principals. Jason Grissom, Susanna Loeb, Benjamin Master. 2012.
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Measuring test measurement error: A general approach. Donald Boyd, Pamela Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, James Wyckoff. 2012.
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Getting the quality right: Engineering education in the BRIC countries. Prashant Loyalka, Martin Carnoy, Isak Froumin, Rafiq Dossani, Jandhyala Tilak. 2012.
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Does Expanding Higher Education Equalize Income Distribution? The Case of the BRIC Countries. Martin Carnoy, Prashant Loyalka, Gregory Androuschak. 2012.
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Race and the principal pipeline: The prevalence of minority principals in light of a largely white teacher workforce. Imeh Williams, Susanna Loeb. 2012.
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Do Parental Involvement Laws Deter Risky Teen Sex. Thomas Dee, Silvie Colman, Ted Joyce. 2012.
When a nudge isn’t enough: Defaults and saving among low-income tax filers. Thomas Dee, Erin Todd Bronchetti, David Huffman, Ellen Magenheim. 2012.
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The Impact of a Senior High School Tuition Relief Program on Poor Junior High School Students in Rural China. Xinxin Chen, Yaojiang Shi, Hongmei Yi, Linxiu Zhang, Di Mo, James Chu, Prashant Loyalka, Scott Rozelle. 2012.
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The Impacts of Building Key Magnet High Schools for China’s Disadvantaged Students: Evidence from a Short-Interrupted Time-Series Design with Multiple Comparison Groups. Prashant Loyalka, Jianguo Wei, Weiping Zhong. 2012.
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Different teachers, different peers: The magnitude of student sorting within schools. Demetra Kalogrides, Susanna Loeb. 2012.
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Staffing for Success: Linking Teacher Evaluation and School Personnel Management in Practice. Benjamin Master. 2012.
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Bias and bias correction in multi-site instrumental variables analysis of heterogeneous mediator effects . Sean F. Reardon, Fatih Unlu, Pei Zhu, Howard Bloom. 2012.
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Can Information and Counseling Help Students from Poor, Rural Areas Go to High School? Evidence from China. Prashant Loyalka, Chengfang Liu, Yingquan Song, Hongmei Yi, Xiaoting Huang, Jianguo Wei, Linxiu Zhang, Yaojiang Shi, James Chu, Scott Rozelle. 2012.
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Using student test scores to measure principal performance. Jason Grissom, Demetra Kalogrides, Susanna Loeb. 2012.
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Race, income, and enrollment patterns in highly selective colleges, 1982-2004. Sean F. Reardon, Rachel Baker, Daniel Klasik. 2012.
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Does state preschool crowd-out private provision? The impact of universal preschool on the childcare sector in Oklahoma and Georgia. Daphna Bassok, Maria Fitzpatrick, Susanna Loeb. 2012.
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Information, College Decisions and Financial Aid: Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in China. Prashant Loyalka, Yingquan Song, Jianguo Wei, Weiping Zhong, Scott Rozelle. 2012.
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Do conditional cash transfers impact the educational attainment and achievement of poor junior high school students in China? Evidence from an RCT. Hongmei Yi, Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang, Y.L. Bai , Yaojiang Shi, C. Yang, H. Wang, Yingquan Song, Xiaoting Huang, Prashant Loyalka, James Chu, Scott Rozelle. 2012.
School turnarounds: Evidence from the 2009 stimulus. Thomas Dee. NBER Working Paper No. 17990, 2012.
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Involuntary teacher transfers and student achievement: Examining equity and efficiency. Jason Grissom, Susanna Loeb, Nathaniel Nakashima. 2012.
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Different skills? Identifying differentially effective teachers of English language learners. Benjamin Master, Susanna Loeb, Camille Whitney, James Wyckoff. 2012.
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The Economic Returns to Higher Education in the BRIC Countries and Their Implications for Higher Education Expansion. Martin Carnoy, Prashant Loyalka, Greg V. Androushchak, Anna Proudnikova. 2012.
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The role of simplification and information in college decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA experiment. Eric P. Bettinger, Bridget Terry Long, Philip Oreopoulos, Lisa Sanbonmatsu. NBER Working Paper No. 15361, 2012.
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Research Directions for Understanding Human Resources in Broad-Access Higher Education Institutions. Susanna Loeb, Agustina Paglayan, Eric S. Taylor. 2011.
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The Role of Intergovernmental Relations in K-12 to Higher Education Transitions. Michael W. Kirst, Michael D. Usdan, Brent Evans, Jon Valant. 2011.
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Do median voters matter? Regression-discontinuity evidence from school-budget elections. Thomas Dee, Andrew Barr. 2011.
Stereotype threat and achievement gaps: Evidence from an affirmation intervention. Thomas Dee. 2011.
The extent, patterns, and implications of kindergarten "Redshirting". Daphna Bassok, Sean F. Reardon. 2011.
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Measures of income segregation. Sean F. Reardon. 2011.
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Disparities in child care availability across communities: Differential reflection of targeted interventions and local demand. Daphna Bassok, Maria Fitzpatrick, Susanna Loeb. 2011.
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Student mobility in Milwaukee: The effects of school transfers on mobile and non-mobile students. Susanna Loeb, Jon Valant. 2011.
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Alternative certification in the long run: Student achievement, teacher retention and the distribution of teacher quality in New York city. Donald Boyd, Erin Dunlop, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, Patten Mahler, Rachel H. O’Brien, James Wyckoff. 2011.
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The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring. Eric P. Bettinger, Rachel Baker. NBER Working Paper No. 16881, 2011.
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Effective linking in a principal advice network: A conceptual model and exploratory analysis. Susanna Loeb, Craig Rawlings. 2011.
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Rules and discretion in the evaluation of students and schools: The case of the New York regents examinations. Thomas Dee, Brian A. Jacob, Justin McCrary, Jonah Rockoff. 2011.
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The Political and Policy Dynamics of K-12 Education Reform from 1965 to 2010: Implications for Changing Postsecondary Education. Michael W. Kirst. Research Priorities for Broad-Access Higher Education, 2010.
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Regression discontinuity designs with multiple rating-score variables. Sean F. Reardon, Joseph P. Robinson. 2010.
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Who leaves? Teacher attrition and student achievement. Donald Boyd, Pamela Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, James Wyckoff. 2007.
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