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Working Papers

2023

1. Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
2. The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2019

3. Institution, Major, and Firm-Specific Premia: Evidence from Administrative Data
   Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia View citations (1)

2016

4. The Impact of Mass Layoffs on the Educational Investments of Working College Students
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article The impact of mass layoffs on the educational investments of working college students, Labour Economics, Elsevier (2018) View citations (4) (2018)
5. The Returns to College Persistence for Marginal Students: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from University Dismissal Policies
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (11)

Journal Articles

2018

1. The impact of mass layoffs on the educational investments of working college students
   Labour Economics, 2018, 51, (C), 1-12 View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper The Impact of Mass Layoffs on the Educational Investments of Working College Students, IZA Discussion Papers (2016) View citations (1) (2016)

2017

2. Comparing standard deviation effects across contexts
   Education Economics, 2017, 25, (3), 251-265 View citations (4)
3. Workload and teacher absence
   Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, (C), 20-30 View citations (2)

2016

4. Gender preference and age at arrival among Asian immigrant mothers in the US
   Economics Letters, 2016, 145, (C), 286-290 View citations (7)

2015

5. Disruptive peers and the estimation of teacher value added
   Economics of Education Review, 2015, 49, (C), 180-192 View citations (14)
6. Grade-specific experience, grade reassignments, and teacher turnover
   Economics of Education Review, 2015, 46, (C), 112-126 View citations (9)

2014

7. How Do Teachers Improve? The Relative Importance of Specific and General Human Capital
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6, (2), 127-51 View citations (45)
8. The Impact of Letter Grades on Student Effort, Course Selection, and Major Choice: A Regression-Discontinuity Analysis
   The Journal of Economic Education, 2014, 45, (1), 1-10 View citations (11)
9. The impact of parental layoff on higher education investment
   Economics of Education Review, 2014, 42, (C), 53-63 View citations (26)

2010

10. The role of peers and grades in determining major persistence in the sciences
    Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29, (6), 923-934 View citations (76)