An aggregate list of publications by CALDER researchers, sorted by year, appears below:
Publications that utilize longitudinal data appear on a shaded background.
FORTHCOMING
Bifulco, Robert, and Ladd, Helen. (Forthcoming). School Choice, Racial Segregation and Test-Score Gaps: Evidence from North Carolina’s Charter School Program. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
Boyd, Donald, Lankford, Hamilton, Loeb, Susanna, and Wyckoff, James. (Forthcoming). Explaining the Short Careers of High-Achieving Teachers in Schools with Low-Performing Students. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings of the 2005 American Economic Association Meetings.
Boyd, Daniel, Lankford, Hamilton, Loeb, Susanna, and Wyckoff, James. (Forthcoming). The Impact of Assessment and Accountability on Teacher Recruitment and Retention: Are There Unintended Consequences? Journal of Public Finance.
Clotfelter, Charles, Glennie, Elizabeth, Ladd, Helen, and Vigdor, Jacob. The North Carolina Math/Science/Special Education (MSSE) $1,800 Teacher Bonus Program: An Initial Evaluation. Final report to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
Clotfelter, Charles, Glennie, Elizabeth, Ladd, Helen, and Vigdor, Jacob. (Forthcoming). Teacher Bonuses and Teacher Retention in Low Performing Schools: Evidence from the North Carolina $1,800 Teacher Bonus Program. Public Finance Quarterly.
Figlio, David, and Rouse, Cecilia. (Forthcoming). Do Accountability and Voucher Threats Improve Low-Performing Schools? Journal of Public Economics.
Figlio, David, and Winicki, Joshua. (Forthcoming). Food for Thought? The Effects of School Accountability Plans on School Nutrition. Journal of Public Economics.
Figlio, David. (Forthcoming). Testing, Crime and Punishment. Journal of Public Economics.
Goldhaber, Dan and Anthony, Emily. (Forthcoming.)
Can Teacher Quality be Effectively Assessed? National Board Certification as a Signal of Effective Teaching.
Review of Economics and Statistics.
Goldhaber, Dan, Cramer, Lauren, and Choi, Hyung-Jai. (Forthcoming). A Descriptive Analysis of the Distribution of NBPTS Certified Teachers in North Carolina. Economics of Education Review.
Goldhaber, Dan. (Forthcoming). National Board Teachers Are More Effective, But Are They In The Classrooms Where They’re Needed The Most? Education Finance and Policy.
Hannaway, Jane, and Stanislawski, M. (2005, under review). Responding to Reform: Florida School Expenditures in the 1990s. Journal of Education Finance.
Hanushek, Eric A. (Forthcoming). Alternative School Policies and the Benefits of General Cognitive Skills. Economics of Education Review.
Loeb, Susanna and Strunk, Katharine. (Forthcoming, 2007). Accountability and Local Control: Incentive Response With and Without Authority Over Resource Generation and Allocation. Education Finance and Policy, 2(1).
Loeb, Susanna and McEwan, Patrick. (Forthcoming). An Economic Approach to Education Policy Implementation. In M. Honig (Ed.), Defining the Field of Education Policy Implementation. State University of New York Press.
Loeb, Susanna, Darling-Hammond, Linda, and Luczak, John, (Forthcoming). How Teaching Conditions Predict Teacher Turnover in California Schools. Peabody Journal of Education.
Rueben, Kim, and Reed, Deborah. Teacher Retention in the 1990s: An Examination of New Teacher Retention in the Aftermath of Class Size Reduction. Working Paper.
2006
Bifulco, Robert, and Ladd, Helen. (2006, Winter). The Impact of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: Evidence from North Carolina. American Education Finance Association, 1(1), 50-90.
Boyd, Donald, Grossman, Pamela, Lankford, Hamilton, Loeb, Susanna, Michelli, Nicholas, and Wyckoff, James. (2006). Complex by Design: Investigating Pathways into Teaching in NYC Schools. Journal of Teacher Education, 57(2).
Boyd, Daniel, Grossman, Pamela, Lankford, Hamilton, Loeb, Susanna, and Wyckoff, James. (2006). How Changes in Entry Requirements Alter the Teacher Workforce and Affect Student Achievement. Education Finance and Policy, 1(2).
Clotfelter, Charles, Ladd, Helen, and Vigdor, Jacob. The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8. (NBER WP #12207.2006)
Clotfelter, Charles, Ladd, Helen, and Vigdor, Jacob. (2006, Fall). Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness. Journal of Human Resources, 41(4), 778-820. Also available at NBER: http://www.nber.org/papers/w11936.
Clotfelter, Charles, Ladd, Helen, Vigdor, Jacob, and Wheeler, Justin. (2006, December). High-Poverty Schools and the Distribution of Teachers and Principals. Available as a Sanford Institute Working Paper.
Clotfelter, Charles, Glennie, Elizabeth, Ladd, Helen, and Vigdor, Jacob. Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina. (NBER WP #12285.2006)
Figlio, David, and Getzler, Lawrence. (2006). Accountability, Ability and Disability: Gaming the System? In T. Gronberg (Ed.), Advances in Microeconomics. Elsevier.
Goldhaber, Dan. (2006). Are Teachers Unions Good for Students? In Jane Hannaway and Andrew Rotherham (Eds.), Collective Bargaining in Education: Negotiating Change in Today's Schools. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Goldhaber, Dan. Everyone’s Doing It, But What Does Teacher Testing Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness? Submitted to Journal of Human Resources (April 2006).
Goldhaber, Dan. (In progress, 2006). Teacher Licensure Tests and Student Achievement: Is Teacher Testing an Effective Policy? In Duncan Chaplin and Jane Hannaway (Eds.), Learning from Longitudinal Data in Education. Washington, DC: UI Press.
Hanushek, Eric A. and Raymond, Margaret E. (2006). Early Returns from School Accountability. In Paul E. Peterson (Ed.), Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap (pp. 143-166). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Hanushek, Eric A. and Raymond, Margaret E. (2006, March). School Accountability and Student Performance. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Regional Economic Development, 2(1), 51-61.
Loeb, Susanna and Miller, Luke. (2006, November). A Federal Foray into Teacher Certification: Assessing the Highly Qualified Teacher Provision of NCLB. Prepared for NCLB and Its Alternatives: Examining America's Commitment to Closing Achievement Gaps, Teachers College, November 13th and 14th, 2006.
Loeb, Susanna and Cunha, Jesse. (2006, September). Have Assessment-Based Accountability Reforms Influenced the Career Decisions of Teachers? Prepared as part of Title I, Part E, Section 1503 of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Loeb, Susanna and Miller, Luke. (2006, November). State Teacher Policies: What Are They, What Are Their Effects, and What Are Their Implications for School Finance? Prepared for the Getting Down to Facts project on California School Finance and Governance.
Reed, Deborah, Rueben, Kim, and Barbour, Elisa. (2006, February). Retention of New Teachers in California. Public Policy Institute of California.
Sass, Tim R. (Winter 2006). Charter Schools and Student Achievement in Florida. Education Finance and Policy 1(1), 91-122.
2005
Betts, Julian, Goldhaber, Dan, and Rosenstock, Larry. (2005). “Supply Side Responses to Systems of School Choice.” In Julian Betts and Tom Loveless (Eds.), Getting Choice Right: Ensuring Equity and Efficiency in Education Policy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
Boyd, Donald, Lankford, Hamilton, Loeb, Susanna, and Wyckoff, James. (2005). The Draw of Home: How Teachers’ Preferences for Proximity Disadvantage Urban Schools. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 24(1).
Boyd, Donald, Lankford, Hamilton, Loeb, Susanna, and Wyckoff, James. (2005, May). Improving Science Achievement: The Role of Teacher Workforce Policies.
Clotfelter, Charles, Ladd, Helen, and Vigdor, Jacob. (2005). Who Teaches Whom? Race and the Distribution of Novice Teachers. Economics of Education Review, 24, 377-392.
DeArmond, Michael and Goldhaber, Dan. (2005). The Back Office: The Neglected Side of Teacher Quality. EdWeek, 24(22),31-32.
Eide, Eric and Goldhaber, Dan. (2005). Grade Retention: What Are the Costs and Benefits? Journal of Education Finance, 31(2), 195-214.
Goldhaber, Dan. “Policy Options for Increasing the Quality of Teachers.” Prepared for the Aspen Institute Program on Education and Society’s Senior Congressional Education Staff Program, August 2005.
Goldhaber, Dan, Henig, Jeff, Guin, Kacey, Weiss, Janet, and Hess, Frederick. (2005). School Choice and ‘Non-Choosers’: The Role of Context in Influencing the Effects of Competition. In Julian Betts and Tom Loveless (Eds.), Getting ChoiceRight: Ensuring Equity and Efficiency in Education Policy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
Goldhaber, Dan and Player, Daniel. (2005). What Different Benchmarks Suggest About How Financially Attractive it is to Teach in Public Schools. Journal of Education Finance, 30(3), 211-230.
Hanushek, Eric A. and Hoxby, Caroline M. (2005). Developing Value-Added Measures for Teachers and Schools. In Koret Task Force on K1-12 Education, Reforming Education in Arkansas (pp. 99-104). Stanford: Hoover Institution Press.
Hanushek, Eric A. and Raymond, Margaret E. (2005, Spring). Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 24(2), 297-327.
Hanushek, Eric A. (2005, August). The Economics of School Quality. German Economic Review, 6(3), 269-286.
Hanushek, Eric A., Kain, John F., O'Brien, Daniel M., and Rivkin, Steven G. (2005, February). The Market for Teacher Quality. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 11154.
Hanushek, Eric A., Kain, John F., and Rivkin, Steven G. (2005, March). Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement, Econometrica, 73(2), 417-458.
Hoxby, Caroline M. and Hanushek, Eric A. (2005). Rewarding Teachers. In Koret Task Force on K1-12 Education, Reforming Education in Arkansas (pp. 155-166). Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press.
Loeb, Susanna, Boyd, Donald, Grossman, Pamela, Lankford, Hamilton, Reininger, Michelle, and Wyckoff, James. (2005, April). Who Goes Where and Why? How Teacher Candidates in New York City Select Their Pre-Service Education Programs.
Podgursky, Michael. (2005). Teacher Licensing in U.S. Public Schools: The Case for Simplicity and Flexibility. Peabody Journal of Education, 80(3), 15-43.
2004
Carnoy, Martin and Loeb, Susanna. (2004). Does External Accountability Affect Student Outcomes? A Cross-State Analysis. In Richard Elmore and Susan Fuhrman (Eds.), Redesigning Accountability Systems. Teachers College Press.
Clotfelter, Charles, Ladd, Helen, and Vigdor, Jacob. (2004). Do School Accountability Systems Make It More Difficult for Low Performing Schools to Attract and Retain High Quality Teachers? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 23(2), 251-271.
Clotfelter, Charles, Ladd, Helen, and Vigdor, Jacob. (2004). Teacher Quality and Minority Achievement Gaps. Paper based on final report to the Spencer Foundation. Available as a Sanford Institute Working Paper.
Eide, Eric, Goldhaber, Dan, and Brewer, Dominic. (2004). The Teacher Labour Market and Teacher Quality. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 20, 230-244.
Epple, Dennis, Figlio, David, and Romano, Richard. (2004, July). Competition Between Private and Public Schools: Testing Stratification and Pricing Predictions. Journal of Public Economics, 88(7-8), 1215-45.
Figlio, David and Lucas, Maurice. (2004, August). Do High Grading Standards Affect Student Performance? Journal of Public Economics, 88(9-10), 1815-34.
Figlio, David and Lucas, Maurice. (2004, Spring). The Gentleman's A. Education Next, 4(2), 60-67.
Figlio, David. (2004, September). Maternal and Infant Factors Associated with Excess Kindergarten Costs. Pediatrics, 114(3).
Figlio, David, Husted, Thomas, and Kenny, Lawrence. (2004, March). Political Economy of the Inequality in School Spending. Journal of Urban Economics, 55(2), 338-49.
Figlio, David. (2004). School Funding and School Accountability. In J. Yinger (Ed.), Helping Children Left Behind: State Aid and the Pursuit of Educational Equity. MIT Press.
Figlio, David, and Lucas, Maurice. (2004, June). What’s in a Grade? School Report Cards and the Housing Market. American Economic Review, 94(3), 591-604.
Goldhaber, Dan and Hannaway, Jane. (2004). Accountability with a Kicker: Preliminary Observations on the Florida A+ Accountability Plan. Phi Delta Kappan, 85(8), 598-605. [Reprinted in Annual Editions: Education 05/06 32nd Edition (2005). Edited by Fred Schultz. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin: Dubuque, IA, pp. 69-75.]
Goldhaber, Dan and Player, Daniel. “Analytical Framework for Assessing the Potential Return on a Federal Investment in the Alliance for Excellent Education’s Every Child a Graduate.” Prepared for the Alliance for Excellent Education, February 2003.
Goldhaber, Dan. “Designing Analyses to Assess Some Potential Benefits of Alternative Route to Licensure Programs.” Prepared for the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES) National Center for Education Evaluation, January 2004.
Goldhaber, Dan and Anthony, Emily. (2004). National Board Certification Successfully Identifies Effective Teachers. Center on Reinventing Public Education.
Goldhaber, Dan, Anthony, Emily, and Perry, David. (2004, Winter). NBPTS Certification: Who Applies and What Factors are Associated with Success? Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 26(4), 259-280.
Goldhaber, Dan. (2004). Why Do We License Teachers? In Frederick Hess, Andrew Rotherham, and Kate Walsh (Eds.), A Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom: Appraising Old Answers and New Ideas (pp. 81-100). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Hannaway, Jane and Goldhaber, Dan. (2004). Accountability with a Kicker: Observations on Florida Vouchers. Paper presented at Annual Meetings of Association for Public Policy and Management (APPAM). Phi Delta Kappan, 85 (8), 598-605.
Hannaway, Jane. (2004). Florida’s Implementation of the NCLB Choice Provisions: Confusions, Constraints, and Cascading Scenarios. In C. Finn and F. Hess (Eds.), Leaving No Child Left Behind: Options for Kids in Failing Schools (pp 89-112). Palgrave Macmillan.
Hannaway, Jane and Olson, K. (2004, under review). Taking less than its share: Special education expenditures in high poverty and high Hispanic districts. Journal of Education Finance.
Hanushek, Eric A., Kain, John F., and Rivkin, Steven G. (2004, August). Disruption versus Tiebout Improvement: The Costs and Benefits of Switching Schools. Journal of Public Economics. 88(9), 1721-1746.
Hanushek, Eric A. and Raymond, Margaret E. (2004, April-May). The Effect of School Accountability Systems on the Level and Distribution of Student Achievement. Journal of the European Economic Association, 2(2-3), 406-415.
Hanushek, Eric and Rivkin, Steven G. (2004). How to Improve the Supply of High Quality Teachers. In Diane Ravitch (Ed.), Brookings Papers on Education Policy 2004 (pp. 7-25). Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
Hanushek, Eric A., Kain, John F., and Rivkin, Steven G. (2004, Winter). The Revolving Door. Education Next, 4(1), 77-82. [Reprinted in: William J. Fowler, Jr. (Ed.), Developments in School Finance: 2003 (pp. 7-15). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, 2004).
Hanushek, Eric A., Kain, John F., and Rivkin, Steven G. (2004, Spring). Why Public Schools Lose Teachers. Journal of Human Resources. 39(2), 326-354.
Ladd, Helen F. (2004). Policy Brief on Accountability in North Carolina. In Education Finance and Organization Structure in New York State Schools, Symposium Proceedings, 2004 (pp. 161-176). Education Finance Research Consortium.
Loeb, Susanna and Reininger, Michelle. (2004). Public Policy and Teacher Labor Markets: What We Know and Why It Matters. The Education Policy Center at Michigan State University.
Podgursky, Michael, Monroe, Ryan, and Watson, Donald. (2004). The Academic Quality of Public School Teachers: An Analysis of Entry and Exit Behavior. Economics of Education Review, 23, 507-518.
Podgursky, Michael, Cheshier, Debra, Wittstruck, John, Watson, Don, and Monroe, Ryan. (2004, June). Access and Affordability: Patterns of Financial Aid and Student Performance for A Cohort of Missouri College Freshmen. Final Report. Grant 999. Lumina Foundation for Education. Indianapolis, Indiana.
Podgursky, Michael. (2004). Improving Academic Performance in U.S. Public Schools: Why Teacher Licensing is (Almost) Irrelevant. In Fredrick Hess, Andrew Rotherham, and Kate Walsh (Eds.), Teacher Training and Quality: New Directions in Policy (pp. 255-278). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Press.
Podgursky, Michael. (2004-05). Teaching is Not Medicine. Academic Questions, 18(1), 69-78.
2003
Boyd, Donald, Loeb, Susanna, Lankford, Hamilton, and Wyckoff, James. Understanding Teacher Labor Markets: Implications for Educational Equity. In D. Monk and M. Plecki (Eds.), School Finance and Teacher Quality: Exploring the Connections, AEFA 2003 Yearbook.
Carnoy, Martin and Loeb, Susanna. (2003). Does External Accountability Affect Student Outcomes? A Cross-State Analysis. Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 24(4), 305-331.
Clotfelter, Charles, Ladd, Helen, and Vigdor, Jacob. (2003, May). Segregation and Resegregation in North Carolina’s Public School Classrooms. North Carolina Law Review, 81(4).
Figlio, David and Page, Marianne. (2003). Can School Choice and School Accountability Coexist Successfully? In C. Hoxby (Ed.), The Economics of School Choice (pp.49-68). University of Chicago Press.
Figlio, David. (2003). Fiscal Implications of School Accountability Initiatives. Tax Policy and the Economy, 17.
Goldhaber, Dan, Eide, Eric, and Liu, Albert. (2003). Concerns in Education: Teacher Compensation and Teacher Quality. Arlington, VA: Educational Research Service.
Goldhaber, Dan, Anthony, Emily, and Perry, David. (2003). Making the Grade: Who Applies for and Earns Advanced Teacher Certification? Urban Institute: Learning Curve: Facts and Perspectives, No. 2.
Goldhaber, Dan and Eide, Eric. (2003). Methodological Thoughts on Measuring the Impact of Private Sector Competition on the Educational Workplace. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 25(2), 217-232.
Goldhaber, Dan and Liu, Albert. (2003). Occupational Choices and the Academic Proficiency of the Teacher Workforce. In William Fowler (Ed.), Developments in School Finance 2001–02 (pp. 53-75). Washington, DC: NCES.
Goldhaber, Dan. “Teacher Licensure and the Quality of Teacher Workforce: Some Thoughts on the Gateway Governing Entry into the Teaching Profession.” Prepared for Changing Governance Systems to Improve Teaching Quality, a conference sponsored by the Education Commission of the States (ECS), March 2003.
Goldhaber, Dan and Anthony, Emily. (2003). Teacher Quality and Student Achievement. New York: Teachers College, Institute for Urban and Minority Education, ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education.
Goldhaber, Dan and Anthony, Emily. (2003). Teacher Quality and Student Achievement. Eric Clearinghouse on Urban Education.
Hannaway, Jane. (2003). Resorting to ‘Plan B’: Teacher Quality in High Poverty Schools. Learning Curves, Brief No. 3. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
Hanushek, Eric A., Kain, John F., Markman, Jacob M., and Rivkin, Steven G. (2003, September/October). Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement? Journal of Applied Econometrics, 18(5), 527-544.
Hanushek, Eric A. and Rivkin, Steve G. (2003). Does Public School Competition Affect Teacher Quality? In Caroline Minter Hoxby (Ed.), The Economics of School Choice (pp. 23-47). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Hanushek, Eric A. and Luque, Javier A. (2003, October). Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World. Economics of Education Review, 20(5),. 481-502.
Hanushek, Eric A. (2003, February). The Failure of Input-based Schooling Policies. Economic Journal, 113,. F64-F98.
Hanushek, Eric A. and Raymond, Margaret E. (2003). Improving Educational Quality: How Best to Evaluate Our Schools. In Yolanda Kodrzycki (Ed.), Education in the 21st Century: Meeting the Challenges of a Changing World (pp. 193-224). Boston, MA: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Hanushek, Eric A. and Raymond, Margaret E. (2003). Lessons about the Design of State Accountability Systems. In Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West (Eds.), No Child Left Behind? The Politics and Practice of Accountability (pp. 126-151). Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
Loeb, Susanna, Boyd, Donald, Lankford, Hamilton, and Wyckoff, James. (2003). Analyzing Determinants of the Matching of Public School Teachers to Jobs: Estimating Compensating Differentials in Imperfect Labor Markets. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 9878.
Loeb, Susanna and Strunk, Katharine. (2003). The Contribution of Administrative and Experimental Data to Education Policy Research. National Tax Journal, 56(2), 415-438.
Loeb, Susanna and Estrada, Felicia. (2003, October). Have Assessment-Based School Accountability Reforms Affected the Career Decisions of Teachers? In Proceedings of the Educational Testing Service Invitational Conference, Measurement and Research Issues in a New Accountability Era.
Loeb, Susanna, Carnoy, Martin, and Smith, Tiffany. (2003). The Impact of Accountability Policies in Texas High Schools. In Martin Carnoy, Richard Elmore and Leslie Santee Siskin (Eds.), The New Accountability: High Schools and High-Stakes Testing.
Loeb, Susanna, Boyd, Donald, Lankford, Hamilton, and Wyckoff, James. (2003, November). Placing the Preparation and Recruitment of Teachers into a Labor Market Framework. In Frederick Hess (Ed.), Proceedings of the American Enterprise Institute Conference, A Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom: Appraising Old Answers and New Ideas.
Podgursky, Michael. (2003, Summer). Fringe Benefits: AFT and NEA Teacher Salary Surveys. Education Next, 3(3), 71-78.
Podgursky, Michael. (2003, January). Personnel Policy in Traditional Public, Charter, and Private Schools. NCSC Review, 1(1), 7-10.
Podgursky, Michael. (2003-04, Winter). Reforming the Single Teacher Salary Schedule in Public Schools. Texas Education Review.
Podgursky, Michael, (2003, August). A Statistical Profile of the KCMSD Teaching Workforce with a Special Emphasis on Teacher Training. Prepared for E. W. Kauffman Foundation.
2002
Ballou, Dale and Podgursky, Michael. (2002, Fall). Seniority, Wages and Turnover Among Public School Teachers. Journal of Human Resources, 37(4), 892-912.
Boyd, Donald, Lankford, Hamilton, Loeb, Susanna, and Wyckoff, James. (2002). Initial Matches, Transfers, and Quits: The Role of Teachers' Career Decisions in the Disparities in Average Teacher Qualifications Across Schools.
Downes, Thomas and Figlio, David. (2002). Tax Revolts and School Performance. In D. Monk, H. Walberg and M. Wang (Eds.), Improving Educational Productivity (pp.7-26). Information Age Press.
Figlio, David. (2002, July). Can Public Schools Buy Better-Qualified Teachers? Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 55(4), 686-99.
Figlio, David, and Page, Marianne. (2002, May). School Choice and the Distributional Effects of Ability Tracking: Does Separation Increase Inequality? Journal of Urban Economics, 51(3), 497-514.
Goldhaber, Dan. (2002). The Mystery of Good Teaching. Education Next, 2(1), 50-55.
Goldhaber, Dan. “States, School Districts, And The Goal Of Teacher Quality: Using Title II To Ensure That No Child Is Left Behind.” Prepared for the National Council on Teacher Quality, May 2002.
Goldhaber, Dan. “Teacher Licensure Policy: The Debate and an Agenda.” Prepared for Building Capacity for Educational Policy Research: Barriers to Conducting Cross-State Comparative Studies, a conference sponsored by Georgia State University, 2002.
Goldhaber, Dan. (2002). Teacher Quality and Teacher Pay Structure: What Do We Know, and What are the Options? Georgetown Public Policy Review, 7(2), 81-94.
Goldhaber, Dan and Eide, Eric. (2002). What Do We Know (and Need to Know) About the Impact of School Choice Reforms on Disadvantaged Students? Harvard Educational Review, 72(2),157-176.
Hanushek, Eric A. (2002). Evidence, politics, and the class size debate. In Lawrence Mishel and Richard Rothstein (Eds.), The class size debate (pp. 37-65). Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute.
Hanushek, Eric A. (2002). The Importance of School Quality. In Paul E. Peterson (Ed.), Our Schools and Our Future: Are We Still at Risk? (pp. 141-173). Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press.
Hanushek, Eric A., Kain, John F., and Rivkin, Steven G. (2002, November). Inferring Program Effects for Specialized Populations: Does Special Education Raise Achievement for Students with Disabilities? Review of Economics and Statistics, 84(4), 584-599.
Hanushek, Eric A. (2002, Fall). The Seeds of Growth. Education Next, 2(3), 10-17.
Hanushek, Eric A. Teacher Quality. (2002). In Lance T. Izumi and Williamson M. Evers (Eds.), Teacher Quality (pp. 1-12). Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press. [Reprinted in Lewis C. Solmon and Tamara W. Schiff (Eds.), Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement (pp. 115-123). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2004.]
Hanushek, Eric A. (2002). Will Quality of Peers Doom Those Left in the Public Schools? In Paul T. Hill (Ed.), Choice with Equity (pp. 121-140.). Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press.
Ladd, Helen, and Walsh, Randall. (2002, February). Implementing Value-Added Measures of School Effectiveness: Getting the Incentives Right. Economics of Education Review, 21 (1), 1-17.
Ladd, Helen, and Zelli, Arnold. (2002, October). School-Based Accountability in North Carolina: The Responses of School Principals. Education Administration Quarterly.
Lankford, Hamilton, Loeb, Susanna, and Wyckoff, James. (2002). Teacher Sorting and the Plight of Urban Schools: A Descriptive Analysis. Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 24(1), 37-62.
Loeb, Susanna. (2002, March). Teacher Compensation. TIAA-CREF Investment Forum.
Podgursky, Michael. (2002). NAEP Background Questions: What Can We Learn from NAEP About The Effect of Schools and Teachers On Student Achievement? A Discussion Paper Prepared to the National Assessment Governing Board.
Podgursky, Michael. (2002). Regulation Versus Markets: The Case for Greater Flexibility in the Market for Public School Teachers. In Margaret Chang and Herbert Walberg (Eds.), Tomorrow’s Teachers (pp. 117-148). Richmond CA: McCutchan..
Podgursky, Michael. (2002). The Single Salary Schedule for Teachers in K-12 Public Schools. Prepared for the Texas Education Reform Commission.
Solomon, L. and Podgursky, Michael, (2002). The Pros and Cons of Teacher Merit Pay. In Dennis L Evans (Ed.), Taking Sides: Secondary Education (pp. 180-190). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Wolkoff, Michael J. and Podgursky, Michael. (2002). Wyoming School District Employee Compensation. Sacramento, CA: Management Analysis and Planning.
2001
Ballou, David and Podgursky, Michael. (2001, Spring). Defining Merit: How Should We Pay Teachers? Education Next, 1(1).
Ballou, Dale and Podgursky, Michael. (2001, Spring). Merit Pay Symposium: Let the Market Decide. Education Matters, 1(1), 16-25.
Ballou, Dale and Podgursky, Michael. (2001). Personnel Policy in Charter Schools. Washington, D.C.: Fordham Foundation.
Conroy, Martin, Loeb, Susanna, and Smith, Tiffany. (2001). Do Higher State Test Scores in Texas Make for Better High School Outcomes. Consortium for Policy Research in Education Research Report.
Figlio, David, and Rueben, Kim. (2001, April). Tax Limits and the Qualifications of New Teachers. Journal of Public Economics, 80(1), 49-71.
Goldhaber, Dan. (2001). How Has Teacher Compensation Changed? In William Fowler (Ed.), Selected Papers in School Finance 2000 (pp. 11-40). Washington, DC: NCES.
Goldhaber, Dan. (2001). The Interface Between Public and Private Schooling: Market Pressure and the Impact on Performance. In David Monk, Herbert J. Walberg, and Margaret Wang (Eds.), Improving Educational Productivity (pp. 47-75). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Goldhaber, Dan. “School Choice As Education Reform: What Do We Know?” Eric Clearinghouse on Urban Education, 2001.
Hanushek, Eric A. and Somers, Julie A. (2001). Schooling, Inequality, and the Impact of Government. In Finis Welch (Ed.), The Causes and Consequences of Increasing Inequality (pp. 169-199). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Ladd, Helen F. (2001, January). School-Based Education Accountability Systems: The Promise and Pitfalls. National Tax Journal, 54 (2), 385-400.
Loeb, Susanna. (2001). How Teachers' Choices Affect What a Dollar Can Buy: Wages and Quality in K-12 Schooling. In The Teacher Workforce: Symposium Proceedings from the Education Finance Research Consortium. Albany, NY.
Loeb, Susanna. (2001). Teacher Quality: Its Enhancement and Potential for Improving Pupil Achievement. In David Monk, Margaret C. Wang and Herbert J. Walberg (Eds.), Improving Educational Productivity. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing Inc.
Podgursky, Michael. (2001, May/June). Bonuses for Board-Certified Teachers Do Not Address Basic Problems of Teacher Pay. NCTM Journal.
Podgursky, Michael. (2001). Comment on Federal Programs for Teacher Professional Development. In Diane Ravitch (Ed.), Brookings Papers on Education Policy 2000 (pp. 298-302). Washington, D.C.
Podgursky, Michael. (2001, Spring). Defrocking the National Board: Will the Imprimatur of 'Board Certification' Professionalize Teaching? Education Matters, 1(2), 79-82.
Podgursky, Michael. (2001, Spring). Flunking ETS: How Teaching Matters. Education Matters, 1 (2), 75-78.
Podgursky, Michael, (2001, April 4). Should States Subsidize National Board Certification of Teachers? Education Week.
Podgursky, Michael. (2001). Teacher Quality and Student Achievement Gaps: Statistical Indicators of the Quantity and Academic Quality of New Missouri Public School Teachers Missouri K-16 Coalition.
Solomon, L, and Podgursky, Michael. (2001). The Pros and Cons of Teacher Merit Pay. Santa Monica: Milkin Family Foundation.
2000
Ballou, Dale and Podgursky, Michael. (2000, Winter). Reforming Teacher Preparation and Licensing: What Does the Evidence Show? Teachers College Record, 101(1), 5-26.
Ballou, Dale and Podgursky, Michael. (2000). Teacher Unions and Education Reform: Gaining Control of Professional Training and Licensing. In Thomas Loveless (Ed.), Conflicting Missions: Teacher Unions and Educational Reform (pp. 69-109). Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution.
Betts, Julian, Rueben, Kim, and Danenberg, Anne. (2000, February). Equal Resources, Equal Outcomes? The Distribution of School Resources and Student Achievement in California. Public Policy Institute of California Monograph.
Goldhaber, Dan and Brewer, Dominic. (2000). Does Teacher Certification Matter? High School Teacher Certification Status and Student Achievement. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 22(2), 129-145.
Goldhaber, Dan. (2000). School Choice: Do We Know Enough? Educational Researcher, 29(8), 21-22.
Hannaway, Jane and McKay, Shannon. (2000, October). School Accountability and Student Achievement: The Texas and Houston Story. Paper presented at Making the Grade conference. Houston, Texas, October, 2000. Also published as “Taking Measure” in Education Next, 1:3 (Fall, 2001).
Hanushek, Eric A. and Kimko, Dennis D. (2000, December). Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and the Growth of Nations. American Economic Review, 90(5), 1184-1208.
Hanushek, Eric A. and Luque, Javier. (2000). Smaller Classes, Lower Salaries? The Effects of Class Size on Teacher Labor Markets. In Sabrina W.M. Laine and James G. Ward (Eds.), Using What We Know: A Review of the Research on Implementing Class-Size Reduction Initiatives for State and Local Policymakers (pp. 35-51). Oak Brook, Ill.: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.
Loeb, Susanna and Page, Marianne. (2000). Examining The Link Between Teacher Wages and Student Outcomes: The Importance of Alternative Labor Market Opportunities and Non-Pecuniary Variation. Review of Economics and Statistics, 82(3).
Loeb, Susanna and Lee, Valerie. (2000, Winter). School Size in Chicago Elementary Schools: Effects on Teachers' Attitudes and Students' Achievement. American Education Research Journal.
Podgursky, Michael. (2000, June). Symposium: What Data Are Available to Answer Charter School Questions? Goldwater Institute Journal, 1(2), 64-72.
1999
Ballou, Dale and Podgursky, Michael. (1999, July). Teacher Training and Licensing: A Layman’s Guide. In Chester Finn Jr and Marci Kanstoroom (Eds.), Better Teachers, Better Schools (pp. 31-82). Washington D.C.: Fordham Foundation.
Downes, Thomas, and Figlio, David. (1999, September). Economic Inequality and the Provision of Schooling. Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Economic Policy Review, 99-110.
Figlio, David, and Stone, Joe. (1999). Are Private Schools Really Better? Research in Labor Economics, 115-140.
Figlio, David. (1999, March). Functional Form and the Estimated Effects of School Resources. Economics of Education Review, 241-252.
Goldhaber, Dan. (1999). An Alternative Measure of Inflation in Teacher Salaries. In William Fowler, Jr. (Ed.), Selected Papers in School Finance 1997–99 (pp. 29-54). Washington, DC: NCES.
Goldhaber, Dan. (1999). School Choice: An Examination of the Empirical Evidence on Achievement, Parental Decision Making, and Equity. Educational Researcher, 28(9), 16-25.
Goldhaber, Dan, Brewer, Dominic and Eide, Eric. (1999). School Choice in Milwaukee: Are Private Schools Creaming Off the Best Students? In William Fowler(Ed.), Developments in School Finance 1998 (pp. 33-45). Washington, DC: NCES.
Goldhaber, Dan. “Criteria of an Effective Teacher Licensure System.” For the National Research Council Committee on Assessment and Teacher Quality, 1999.
Goldhaber, Dan and Brewer, Dominic. (1999). Teacher Licensing and Student Achievement. In Marci Kanstoroom and Chester E. Finn, Jr. (Eds.), Better Teachers, Better Schools (pp. 83-102). Washington, DC: The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.
Goldhaber, Dan, Brewer, Dominic, Eide, Eric, and Rees, Daniel. (1999). Testing for Sample Selection in the Milwaukee School Choice Experiment. Economics of Education Review, 18: 259-267.
Goldhaber, Dan, Brewer, Dominic, and Anderson, Deborah. (1999). A Three-Way Error Components Analysis of Educational Productivity. Education Economics, 7(3), 199-208.
Hanushek, Eric A. (1999). The Evidence on Class Size. In Susan E. Mayer and Paul Peterson (ed.), Earning and Learning: How Schools Matter (pp. 131-168). Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
Hanushek, Eric A. (1999, Summer). Some Findings from an Independent Investigation of the Tennessee STAR Experiment and from Other Investigations of Class Size Effects, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 21(2), 143-163.
Ladd, Helen F. (1999). The Dallas School Accountability and Incentive Program: An Evaluation of Its Impacts on Student Outcomes. Economics of Education Review.
Podgursky, Michael. (1999, December). A Statistical Analysis of the Labor Market for Missouri Public School Teachers: 1994-95 to 1998-99 Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
1998
Ballou, Dale and Podgursky, Michael. (1998, Summer). The Case Against Teacher Certification. The Public Interest, No. 132, 17-29.
Ballou, Dale and Podgursky, Michael. (1998). Reforming Teacher Training and Recruitment: A Critical Appraisal of the Recommendations of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future. Government Union Review, 17(4), 1-53.
Ballou, Dale and Podgursky, Michael. (1998). Rural Teachers and Schools. In Robert Gibbs, Paul Swaim and Ruy Teixeira (Eds.), Rural Education and Training in the New Economy (pp. 3-21). Iowa State University Press.
Ballou, David and Podgursky, Michael. (1998, June 11). Some Unanswered Questions Concerning National Board Certification. Education Week.
Ballou, David and Podgursky, Michael. (1998, March). Teacher 'Professionalization.' Organizational Trends, 1-5.
Ballou, Dale and Podgursky, Michael. (1998, June). Teacher Recruitment and Retention in Public and Private Schools. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 17(3), 393-417. (abstract only)
Goldhaber, Dan and Brewer, Dominic. (1998). When Should We Reward Degrees for Teachers? Phi Delta Kappan, 80(2), 134-138.
Lee, Valerie, Loeb, Susanna, and Lubeck, Sally. (1998). Contextual Effects of Prekindergarten Classrooms for Disadvantaged Children on Cognitive Development: The Case of Chapter 1. Child Development 69(2). 479-494.
1997
Ballou, David and Podgursky, Michael. (1997, Summer). Reforming Teacher Training and Recruitment. Opportunity, (2)1, 4-9.
Ballou, David and Podgursky, Michael, (1997, July). Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality. Education Industry Report, 5(7), 2.
Figlio, David. (1997, September). Did the 'Tax Revolt' Reduce School Performance? Journal of Public Economics, 245-269.
Figlio, David. (1997, August). Teacher Salaries and Teacher Quality. Economics Letters, 267-272.
Goldhaber, Dan and Brewer, Dominic. (1997). “Evaluating the Effect of Teacher Degree Level on Educational Performance.” In William Fowler (Ed.), Developments in School Finance 1996 (pp. 197-210). Washington, DC: NCES.
Goldhaber, Dan. (1997). School Choice as Educational Reform. Phi Delta Kappan, 79(2), 143-147.
Goldhaber, Dan and Brewer, Dominic. (1997). Why Don't Schools and Teachers Seem to Matter? Assessing the Impact of Unobservables on Educational Productivity. Journal of Human Resources, 32(3), 505-523.
Hanushek, Eric A. (1997, May). Applying Performance Incentives to Schools for Disadvantaged Populations. Education and Urban Society, 29(3), 296-316.
Hanushek, Eric A. (1997, Summer). Assessing the Effects of School Resources on Student Performance: An Update. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 19(2), 141-164.
Hanushek, Eric A. and Rivkin, Steven G. (1997, Winter). Understanding the 20th Century Growth in U.S. School Spending. Journal of Human Resources, 32(1), 35-68.
Podgursky, Michael. (1997, February). The Myth of Stagnant Family Income. Education Industry Report, 5(2), 2.
1996
Brewer, Dominic and Goldhaber, Dan. (1996). Educational Achievement and Teacher Qualifications: New Evidence from Microlevel Data. In Bruce S. Cooper and Sheree T. Speakman (Eds.), Advances In Educational Productivity Volume 6: Optimizing Education Resources (pp. 243-264). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Clotfelter, Charles, and Ladd, Helen. (1996). Recognizing and Rewarding Success in Public Schools. In Helen F. Ladd (Ed.), Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
Ferguson, Ronald, and Ladd, Helen. (1996). Additional Evidence on How and Why Money Matters: A Production Function Analysis of Alabama Schools. In Helen F. Ladd (Ed.), Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
Hanushek, Eric A., Rivkin, Steven G., and Taylor, Lori L. (1996, November). Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School Resources. Review of Economics and Statistics, 78(4), 611-627.
Hanushek, Eric A. (1996). School Resources and Student Performance. In Gary Burtless (Ed.), Does Money Matter? The Effect of School Resources on Student Achievement and Adult Success (pp. 43-73). Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution.
Loeb, Susanna and Bound, John. (1996). The Effect of Measured School Inputs on Academic Achievement: Evidence from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s Birth Cohorts. Review of Economics and Statistics, 78(4), 653-664.
Ladd, Helen F. (1996). Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education (editor, author of introduction and coauthor of two chapters). Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
1995
Ballou, Dale and Podgursky, Michael. (1995, January). Education Policy and Teacher Effort. Industrial Relations, 34(1), 21-39.
Ballou, Dale and Podgursky, Michael. (1995, Spring). Recruiting Smarter Teachers. Journal of Human Resources, 30(2), 326-338.
Ballou, Dale and Podgursky, Michael. (1995, June). Rural Schools. Rural Development Perspectives, 10(3), 6-16.
Ballou, Dale and Podgursky, Michael. (1995). What Makes a Good Principal? How Teachers Assess the Performance of Principals. Economics of Education Review, 14(3), 243-252.
Ehrenberg, Ronald, Goldhaber, Dan, and Brewer, Dominic. (1995). Do Teachers' Race, Gender, and Ethnicity Matter? Evidence from NELS88. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 48(3), 547-561. Also published as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 4669, March 1994.
Hanushek, Eric A. and Pace, Ricahrd R. (1995, June). Who Chooses to Teach (and Why)? Economics of Education Review, 14(2), 101-117.
Lee, Valerie and Loeb, Susanna. (1995, Spring). Where do Head Start Attendees End Up? One Reason Why Preschool Effects Fade Out. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 17(1), 62-82.
1994
Ballou, David and Podgursky, Michael. (1994). Teacher Quality in Public and Private Schools. Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section, American Statistical Association Annual Meetings, 1994.
Hanushek, Eric A. (1994). Making Schools Work: Improving Performance and Controlling Costs. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
Hanushek, Eric A. and Pace, Richard R. (1994). Understanding Entry into the Teaching Profession. In Ronald G. Ehrenberg (Ed.), Choices and Consequences: Contemporary Policy Issues in Education (pp. 12-28). Ithaca, NY: ILR Press.
Podgursky, Michael. (1994). Quantity and Quality of Teacher Labor Supply. U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics.
1993
Ballou, David and Podgursky, Michael. (1993). Implicit Markets for Teacher Quality and School Attributes. Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section, American Statistical Association Annual Meetings, 1993, pp. 77-81.
Ballou, Dale and Podgursky, Michael. (1993, October). Teachers' Attitudes Toward Merit Pay: Examining the Conventional Wisdom. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 47(1), 50-61.
1992
Hanushek, Eric A. (1992, February). The Trade-off Between Child Quantity and Quality. Journal of Political Economy, 100(1), 84-117.
1990
Hanushek, Eric A. and Taylor, Lori. (1990, Spring). Alternative Assessments of the Performance of Schools: Measurement of State Variations in Achievement. Journal of Human Resources, 25(2), 179-201.
1989
Hanushek, Eric A. (1989, May). Expenditures, Efficiency, and Equity in Education: The Federal Government's Role. American Economic Review, 79(2), 46-51.
Hanushek, Eric A. (1989, May). The Impact of Differential Expenditures on School Performance. Educational Researcher, 18(4), 45-51.
1986
Hanushek, Eric A. (1986, September). The Economics of Schooling: Production and Efficiency in Public Schools. Journal of Economic Literature, 49(3), 1141-1177.
Hanushek, Eric A. (1981, Fall). Throwing Money at Schools. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1(1), 19-41. [see also, The Continuing Hope: A Rejoinder, same volume, pp. 53-54].
Hanushek, Eric A. (1972). Education and Race--An Analysis of the Educational Production Process. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath.
Hanushek, Eric A. and Kain, John F. (1972). On the Value of 'Equality of Educational Opportunity' as a Guide to Public Policy. In Frederick Mosteller and Daniel P. Moynihan (Eds.), On Equality of Educational Opportunity (pp. 116-145). New York: Random House.
Hanushek, Eric A. (1971, May). Teacher Characteristics and Gains in Student Achievement: Estimation Using Micro-Data. American Economic Review, 61(2), 280-288.
Hanushek, Eric A. (1970). The Value of Teachers in Teaching, RM-6362-CC/RC (Santa Monica: The Rand Corporation).
Hanushek, Eric A. (1970). The Production of Education, Teacher Quality, and Efficiency. In U.S. Office of Education, Do Teachers Make a Difference? (pp. 79-99). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
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