Publications
The Toughest Battleground: Schools
In Mark A. Wynne, Harvey Rosenblum and Robert L. Formaini (ed.). The legacy of Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose: Economic liberalism at the turn of the twenty first century, Dallas, TX: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, pp. 21-35. 2004The Underrepresentation of Minority Faculty in Higher Education: Panel Discussion
American Economic Review, 94(2), pp. 304-306. May-04What If There Are No 'Best Practices'?
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 51(2), pp. 156-172. May-04Shopping for Evidence Against School Accountability
(with Margaret E. Raymond). In William J. Fowler, Jr. (ed.). Developments in School Finance: 2003, (Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics), pp. 119-130. 2004The Effect of School Accountability Systems on the Level and Distribution of Student Achievement
(with Margaret E. Raymond). Journal of the European Economic Association, 2(2-3), pp. 406-415. May-04
Why Public Schools Lose Teachers
(with John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin). The Journal of Human Resources, 39(2), pp. 326-354. Spring 2004
How to Improve the Supply of High Quality Teachers
(with Steven G. Rivkin). Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2004, pp. 7-44. 2004
Opportunities, Race, and Urban Location: The Influence of John Kain
(with Edward L. Glaeser and John M. Quigley). Journal of Urban Economics, 56(1). 2004
How to Determine Who is a Quality Teacher
(with Lewis C. Solmon, Philip Bigler, Lee S. Shulman, and Herbert J. Walberg). In Lewis C. Solmon and Tamara W. Schiff (ed.) . Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement, Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, pp. 49-85. 2004Economic Analysis of School Quality
European Economy: Quality and Efficiency in Education, Special Report No 3. Brussels: Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission, pp. 29-48. 2004Redistribution through Education and Other Transfer Mechanisms
(with Charles Ka Yui Leung and Kuzey Yilmaz). Journal of Monetary Economic, 50(8), pp. 1719-1750. Nov-03
Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement?
(with John F. Kain, Jacob M. Markman, and Steven G. Rivkin). Journal of Applied Econometrics, 18(5), pp. 527-544. Oct-03Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World
(with Javier A. Luque). Economics of Education Review, 22(5), pp. 481-502. Oct-03
The Economics of Schooling and School Quality - Volume II: Efficiency, Competition, and Policy
(editor). London: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.. 2003Does Public School Competition Affect Teacher Quality?
(with Steven G. Rivkin). In Caroline Minter Hoxby (ed.). The Economics of School Choice, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 23-47. 2003Lessons about the Design of State Accountability Systems
(with Margaret E. Raymond). In Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West (ed.). No Child Left Behind? The Politics and Practice of Accountability, Washington, DC: Brookings, pp. 126-151. 2003Improving Educational Quality: How Best to Evaluate Our Schools
(with Margaret E. Raymond). In Yolanda Kodrzycki (ed.). Education in the 21st Century: Meeting the Challenges of a Changing World, Boston, MA: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, pp. 193-224. 2003The Economics of Schooling and School Quality - Volume I: Labor Markets, Distribution, and Growth
(editor). London: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 976 pages. 2003Public School Finance and Urban School Policy: General versus Partial Equilibrium Analysis
In William G. Gale and Janet Rothenberg Pack (ed.). Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, pp. 171-176. 2003Comment [on Krueger and Heckman]
In Benjamin M. Friedman (ed.). Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 252-269. 2003Inferring Program Effects for Specialized Populations: Does Special Education Raise Achievement for Students with Disabilities
(with John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin). Review of Economics and Statistics, 84(4), pp. 584-599. Nov-02
Teacher quality and teacher salaries
Policy Brief, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University. Nov-02Introduction to the JHR's Special Issue on Designing Incentives to Promote Human Capital
(with James Heckman, Derek Nea). The Journal of Human Resources, 37( 4), Autumn, pp. 693-695. 2002The Importance of School Quality
In Paul E. Peterson (ed.). Our Schools and Our Future: Are We Still at Risk?, (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press), pp. 141-173. 2002Teacher Quality
In Lance T. Izumi and Williamson M. Evers (ed.). Teacher Quality, (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press), pp. 1-12. 2002Evidence, Politics, and the Class Size Debate
In Lawrence Mishel and Richard Rothstein (ed.) . The Class Size Debate, Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, pp. 37-65. 2002Will Quality of Peers Doom Those Left in the Public Schools?
in Paul T. Hill (ed.). Choice with Equity, pp. 121-140. 2002
Publicly Provided Education
in Alan J. Auerbach and Martin Feldstein (ed.). Handbook of Public Economics (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2002), pp. 2045-2141. 2002
Sorting out accountability systems
(with Margaret E. Raymond). In Williamson M. Evers, Herbert J. Walberg (Eds.). School Accountability, pp. 75-104. 2002The Confusing World of Educational Accountability
(with Margaret E. Raymond). National Tax Journal, 54(2), pp. 365-384. June 2001