More unequal and more separate: Growth in the residential segregation of...
As overall income inequality grew in the last four decades, high- and low-income families have become increasingly less likely to live near one another. Mixed income neighborhoods have grown rarer,...
View ArticleResearch Directions for Understanding Human Resources in Broad-Access Higher...
Broad-access higher education institutions play a large and growing role in American human capital development, yet research describing how these institutions function and identifying the key elements...
View ArticleIn light of the limitations of data-driven decision making
Students’ experiences and the opportunities they have to learn rest on the quality of education decisions made in each class room, in each school, in each district, and in each state, federal...
View ArticleThe role of simplification and information in college decisions: Results from...
Growing concerns about low awareness and take-up rates for government support programs like college financial aid have spurred calls to simplify the application process and enhance visibility. This...
View ArticleHometown disadvantage? It depends on where you’re from: teachers' location...
This article focuses on an overlooked factor in the unequal sorting of teachers across schools: the geographic preferences of teachers. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study, the...
View ArticleDoes state preschool crowd-out private provision? The impact of universal...
The success of any governmental subsidy depends on whether it increases provision or crowds out existing supply. Universal preschool policies introduced in Georgia and Oklahoma offer an opportunity to...
View ArticleCan Teacher Evaluation Improve Teaching?
The modernization of teacher evaluation systems, an increasingly common component of school reform efforts, promises to reveal new, systematic information about the performance of individual classroom...
View ArticleThe Common Core Meets State Policy: This Changes Almost Everything
The full policy implications of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for Mathematics and English Language Arts K-12 are just beginning to unfold across the 45 states (and DC) that are working to...
View ArticleStrategic Involuntary Teacher Transfers and Teacher Performance: Examining...
Despite claims that school districts need flexibility in teacher assignment to allocate teachers more equitably across schools and improve district performance, the power to involuntarily transfer...
View ArticleSpending More of the School Day in Math Class: Evidence from a Regression...
For students whose math skills lag expectations, public schools often increase the fraction of the school day spent on math instruction. Studying middle-school students and using regression...
View ArticleSimulation Models of the Effects of Race- and Socioeconomic-Based Affirmative...
This paper develops intuition about socioeconomic-based affirmative action and the extent to which it can replicate the levels of racial diversity evident in selective colleges. Using stylized...
View ArticleIdentification based on Difference-in-Differences Approaches with Multiple...
This paper discusses identification based on difference-in-differences (DiD) approaches with multiple treatments. It shows that an appropriate adaptation of the common trend assumption underlying the...
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