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Rotten apples: An investigation of the prevalence and predictors of teacher cheating

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BA Jacob… - 2003 - nber.org
... Statistical analysis, however, may provide a means of detecting illicit acts, despite the best attempts
of perpetrators to keep them clandestine. Brian Jacob Steven Levitt Kennedy School of
Government Department of Economics Harvard University University of Chicago ...
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Accountability, incentives and behavior: The impact of high-stakes testing in the Chicago Public Schools

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BA Jacob - Journal of Public Economics, 2005 - Elsevier
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Remedial education and student achievement: A regression-discontinuity analysis

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BA Jacob… - Review of economics and statistics, 2004 - MIT Press
Page 1. REMEDIAL EDUCATION AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: A REGRESSION-
DISCONTINUITY ANALYSIS Brian A. Jacob and Lars Lefgren* Abstract—As standards
and accountability have become increasingly prominent ...
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The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools

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JB Cullen, BA Jacob… - Journal of Public Economics, 2005 - Elsevier
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Where the boys aren't: non-cognitive skills, returns to school and the gender gap in higher education

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BA Jacob - Economics of Education Review, 2002 - Elsevier
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Getting tough? The impact of high school graduation exams

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BA Jacob - Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2001 - epa.sagepub.com
Page 1. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis http://eepa.aera.net Getting
Tough? The Impact of High School Graduation Exams Brian A. Jacob EDUCATIONAL
EVALUATION AND POLICY ANALYSIS 2001 23: 99 DOI ...
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Public housing, housing vouchers and student achievement: Evidence from public housing demolitions in Chicago

BA Jacob - 2003 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PUBLIC HOUSING, HOUSING VOUCHERS AND
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM PUBLIC HOUSING DEMOLITIONS IN CHICAGO
Brian A. Jacob Working Paper 9652 http://www.nber.org/papers/w9652 ...
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Are idle hands the devil's workshop? incapacitation, concentration and juvenile crime

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BA Jacob… - 2003 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ARE IDLE HANDS THE DEVIL'S WORKSHOP?
INCAPACITATION, CONCENTRATION AND JUVENILE CRIME Brian A. Jacob Lars Lefgren
Working Paper 9653 http://www.nber.org/papers/w9653 ...
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The impact of teacher training on student achievement

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BA Jacob… - Journal of Human Resources, 2004 - jhr.uwpress.org
... Most prior research on this topic has focused Brian Jacob is an assistant professor
at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Lars Lefgren is an
assistant professor of economics at Brigham Young University. ...
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The effect of school choice on participants: Evidence from randomized lotteries

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JB Cullen, BA Jacob… - Econometrica, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. Econometrica, Vol. 74, No. 5 (September, 2006), 1191–1230 THE EFFECT OF
SCHOOL CHOICE ON PARTICIPANTS: EVIDENCE FROM RANDOMIZED LOTTERIES
BY JULIE BERRY CULLEN, BRIAN A. JACOB, AND STEVEN LEVITT1 ...
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Principals as agents: Subjective performance measurement in education

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BA Jacob… - 2005 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PRINCIPALS AS AGENTS: SUBJECTIVE
PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT IN EDUCATION Brian A. Jacob Lars Lefgren
Working Paper 11463 http://www.nber.org/papers/w11463 ...
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Can principals identify effective teachers? Evidence on subjective performance evaluation in education

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BA Jacob… - Journal of Labor Economics, 2008 - JSTOR
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The effect of school choice on student outcomes: Evidence from randomized lotteries

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JB Cullen, BA Jacob… - 2003 - nber.org
... Addresses: Julie Cullen, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
48109-1220, jbcullen@umich.edu; Brian Jacob, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Brian_Jacob@harvard.edu; Steven Levitt ...
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[CITATION] Accountability, incentives and behavior: Evidence from school reform in Chicago

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B Jacob - Journal of Public Economics, 2005
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The impact of high-stakes testing in Chicago on student achievement in promotional gate grades

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M Roderick, BA Jacob… - Educational Evaluation and …, 2002 - epa.sagepub.com
Page 1. STANDARDS and accountability policies have become increasingly popular
strategies among school reformers. In 1984, South Carolina became the first state
to introduce a school performance in- centive program where ...
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The challenges of staffing urban schools with effective teachers

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BA Jacob - The Future of Children, 2007 - JSTOR
Page 1. The Challenges of Staffing Urban Schools with Effective Teachers Brian A. Jacob
Summary Brian Jacob examines challenges faced by urban districts in staffing their schools
with effective teachers. He emphasizes that the problem is far from uniform. ...
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Do High School Exit Exams Influence Educational Attainment or Labor Market Performance?

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TS Dee… - 2006 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DO HIGH SCHOOL EXIT EXAMS INFLUENCE
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OR LABOR MARKET PERFORMANCE? Thomas S. Dee Brian
A. Jacob Working Paper 12199 http://www.nber.org/papers/w12199 ...
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What do parents value in education? An empirical investigation of parents' revealed preferences for teachers

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BA Jacob… - 2005 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHAT DO PARENTS VALUE IN EDUCATION: AN
EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF PARENTS' REVEALED PREFERENCES FOR TEACHERS
Brian A. Jacob Lars Lefgren Working Paper 11494 http://www.nber.org/papers/w11494 ...
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[PDF] Generalizations about using value-added measures of teacher quality

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EA Hanushek, SG Rivkin, D Figlio… - American Economic …, 2010 - usapr.org
by Eric A. Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin* The extensive investigation of the contribution of
teachers to student achievement produces two generally accepted results. First, there is
substantial variation in teacher quality as measured by the value added to achievement or ...
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Can you recognize an effective teacher when you recruit one?

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JE Rockoff, BA Jacob, TJ Kane… - 2008 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CAN YOU RECOGNIZE AN EFFECTIVE TEACHER
WHEN YOU RECRUIT ONE? Jonah E. Rockoff Brian A. Jacob Thomas J. Kane Douglas O.
Staiger Working Paper 14485 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14485 ...
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Catching cheating teachers: The results of an unusual experiment in implementing theory

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BA Jacob… - 2003 - nber.org
... In addition, the data generated by the implementation experiment highlight numerous ways in
which the original cheating detection methods can be improved in the future. Brian Jacob Steven
Levitt Kennedy School of Government Department of Economics Harvard University ...
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The dynamics of criminal behavior: Evidence from weather shocks

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B Jacob, L Lefgren… - 2004 - nber.org
The persistence of criminal activity is well documented. While such serial correlation may be
evidence of social interactions in the production of crime, it may also be due to the
persistence of unobserved determinants of crime. Moreover, there are good reasons to ...
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Test-based accountability and student achievement: an investigation of differential performance on NAEP and state assessments

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BA Jacob - 2007 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TEST-BASED ACCOUNTABILITY AND
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: AN INVESTIGATION OF DIFFERENTIAL PERFORMANCE
ON NAEP AND STATE ASSESSMENTS Brian A. Jacob ...
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The impact of No Child Left Behind on student achievement

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T Dee… - 2009 - nber.org
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act compelled states to design school-accountability
systems based on annual student assessments. The effect of this Federal legislation on the
distribution of student achievement is a highly controversial but centrally important ...
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The persistence of teacher-induced learning gains

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BA Jacob, L Lefgren… - 2008 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PERSISTENCE OF TEACHER-
INDUCED LEARNING GAINS Brian A. Jacob Lars Lefgren David Sims Working Paper
14065 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14065 NATIONAL BUREAU ...
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Improving educational outcomes for poor children

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B Jacob… - 2008 - nber.org
This review paper, prepared for the forthcoming Russell Sage volume Changing Poverty,
considers the ability of different education policies to improve the learning outcomes of low-
income children in America. Disagreements on this question stem in part from different ...
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[CITATION] Evaluating Chicago's efforts to end social promotion

M Roderick, BA Jacob… - Governance …, 2000 - Georgetown University Press: …
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The persistence of teacher-induced learning

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BA Jacob, L Lefgren… - Journal of Human Resources, 2010 - jhr.uwpress.org
... Brian Jacob is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of
Economics, and Director of the Center on Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)
at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. ...
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The effect of grade retention on high school completion

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BA Jacob… - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2009 - JSTOR
Page 1. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2009, 1:3, 33-58
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10J257/appJ.3.33 The Effect of Grade
Retention on High School Completion By Brian A. Jacoband Lars Lefgren* ...
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The impact of research grant funding on scientific productivity

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B Jacob… - 2007 - nber.org
In this paper, we estimate the impact of receiving an NIH grant on subsequent publications
and citations. Our sample consists of all applications (unsuccessful as well as successful) to
the NIH from 1980 to 2000 for postdoctoral training grants (F32s) and standard research ...
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[PDF] The impact of high-stakes testing on student achievement: Evidence from Chicago

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BA Jacob - Unpublished manuscript, Harvard University, 2002 - terry.uga.edu
Page 1. Preliminary and Incomplete: Comments Welcome THE IMPACT OF HIGH-STAKES
TESTING ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM CHICAGO ∗ Brian A. Jacob John
F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University June 2001 ...
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[CITATION] Summer in the city: Achievement gains in Chicago's Summer Bridge Program

M Roderick, BA Jacob… - 2004 - Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: …
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Rational ignorance in education: A field experiment in student plagiarism

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TS Dee… - 2010 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES RATIONAL IGNORANCE IN EDUCATION:
A FIELD EXPERIMENT IN STUDENT PLAGIARISM Thomas S Dee Brian A. Jacob
Working Paper 15672 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15672 ...
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[CITATION] A closer look at achievement gains under high-stakes testing in Chicago

BA Jacob - No Child Left Behind, 2003
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Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers?

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BA Jacob - 2010 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DO PRINCIPALS FIRE THE WORST
TEACHERS? Brian A. Jacob Working Paper 15715 http://www.nber.org/papers/
w15715 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 ...
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The effect of grade retention on high school completion

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B Jacob… - 2007 - nber.org
Low-achieving students in many school districts are retained in a grade in order to allow
them to gain the academic or social skills that teachers believe are necessary to succeed
academically. This practice is highly controversial, with many researchers claiming that it ...
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Defining culture in a multicultural environment: An ethnography of Heritage High School

BA Jacob - American Journal of Education, 1995 - JSTOR
Page 1. Defining Culture in a Multicultural Environment: An Ethnography of Heritage
High School BRIAN A. JACOB Zora Neale Hurston Academy, East Harlem, New York
The primary goal of this article is to examine how multicultural ...
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To Catch a Cheat.

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BA Jacob… - Education next, 2004 - eric.ed.gov
EJ763240 - To Catch a Cheat.
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[CITATION] Annual CPS test trend review, 1999

JQ Easton, T Rosenkranz, AS Bryk, BA Jacob… - Chicago, Consortium on …, 2000
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Educational expectations and attainment

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BA Jacob… - 2010 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EDUCATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND
ATTAINMENT Brian A. Jacob Tamara Wilder Working Paper 15683 http://www.nber.
org/papers/w15683 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ...
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The impact of No Child Left Behind on student achievement

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TS Dee… - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act compelled states to design school accountability
systems based on annual student assessments. The effect of this federal legislation on the
distribution of student achievement is a highly controversial but centrally important ...
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The effects of housing assistance on labor supply: evidence from a voucher lottery

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BA Jacob… - 2008 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE EFFECTS OF HOUSING ASSISTANCE
ON LABOR SUPPLY: EVIDENCE FROM A VOUCHER LOTTERY Brian A. Jacob Jens
Ludwig Working Paper 14570 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14570 ...
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The Impact of Public Housing Demolitions on Student Achievement in Chicago.

BA Jacob - 2000 - eric.ed.gov
ED465006 - The Impact of Public Housing Demolitions on Student Achievement in Chicago.
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[PDF] Is gaining access to selective elementary schools gaining ground? Evidence from randomized lotteries

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JB Cullen… - 2007 - nber.org
... Addresses: Julie Cullen, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego, 9500
Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093- 0508, jbcullen@ucsd.edu; Brian Jacob, Gerald R. Ford School
of Public Policy, University of Michigan, 735 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 ...
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[CITATION] Feeling Capitalism: A Conversation with Arlie Hochschild Conducted 5 May 2005

NH Wilson… - Journal of Consumer Culture, 2005 - joc.sagepub.com
JCC: Can you situate your concern with commodification in two different dimensions?
Personally, in The Commercialization of Intimate Life you describe an anecdote about how
you became concerned with care within a familial context. Is there a similar biographical ...
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The effect of employment protection on worker effort: Evidence from public schooling

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BA Jacob - 2010 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE EFFECT OF EMPLOYMENT
PROTECTION ON WORKER EFFORT: EVIDENCE FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLING Brian
A. Jacob Working Paper 15655 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15655 ...
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Using technology to explore social networks and mechanisms underlying peer effects in classrooms.

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J Guryan, B Jacob, E Klopfer… - Developmental psychology, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract 1. Peer interactions among children have long interested social scientists.
Identifying causal peer effects is difficult, and a number of studies have used random
assignment to produce evidence that peers affect each other's outcomes. This focus by ...
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The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Students, Teachers, and Schools [with Comments and Discussion]

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TS Dee, BA Jacob, CM HOXBY… - Brookings Papers on …, 2010 - JSTOR
Page 1. THOMAS S. DEE University of Virginia BRIAN A.JACOB University of Michigan
The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Students, Teachers, and Schools ABSTRACT
The controversial No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) brought ...
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[CITATION] Teacher attitudes on pay for performance: A pilot study

BA Jacob, MG Springer… - 2007 - National Center on Performance …
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Getting inside Accountability: Lessons from Chicago [with Comments]

BA Jacob, PN Courant… - Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban …, 2003 - JSTOR
Page 1. BRIAN A. JACOB Getting Inside Accountability: Lessons from Chicago The
passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2001 ensures that school accountability
will dominate the educational landscape in this country ...
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The effect of gun shows on gun-related deaths: Evidence from California and Texas

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M Duggan, R Hjalmarsson… - 2008 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE EFFECT OF GUN SHOWS ON GUN-RELATED
DEATHS: EVIDENCE FROM CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS Mark Duggan Randi Hjalmarsson Brian
A. Jacob Working Paper 14371 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14371 ...
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High Stakes in Chicago.

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B Jacob - Education Next, 2003 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: Examines the effects of high-stakes testing in Chicago, the first large urban school
district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system. Concludes that high-stakes
testing has the potential to improve student learning, but policymakers must look beyond ...
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[BOOK] Test-based accountability and student achievement gains: Theory and evidence

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BA Jacob… - 2002 - hks.harvard.edu
Page 1. Test-Based Accountability and Student Achievement Gains: Theory and
Evidence ∗ Brian A. Jacob Harvard University and NBER PEPG/02-06 A paper prepared
for the conference Taking Account of Accountability: Assessing ...
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[PDF] The Americanization of Immigrant Children from Mexico

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T DeLeire, B Jacob, A Lacuesta… - 2005 - cream-migration.org
Abstract A sizeable literature in the social sciences argues that experiences during
childhood can have large impacts on subsequent development and well-being as an adult.
A largely unrelated literature on the economics of immigration has sought to determine ...
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[PDF] Estimating Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Youth

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BA Jacob, J Ludwig… - National Vital Statistics Reports, 2003 - iza.org
Page 1. ESTIMATING NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS ON LOW-INCOME YOUTH August
20, 2009 Brian A. Jacob Walter Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor
of Economics University of Michigan Jens Ludwig McCormick ...
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The effects of school size on parental involvement and social capital: Evidence from the ELS: 2002

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TS Dee, W Ha… - Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2006 - JSTOR
Page 1. The Effects of School Size on Parental Involvement and Social Capital:
Evidence from the ELS:2002 THOMAS S. DEE, WEI HA, AND BRIAN A. JACOB
Recent state and federal policies designed to improve American ...
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[CITATION] The effects of housing vouchers on criminal behavior: Evidence from a randomized lottery

J Ludwig, BA Jacob, GJ Duncan, J Rosenbaum… - … draft: Georgetown Public …, 2004
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[PDF] Does School Choice Attract Students to Urban Public Schools? Evidence from over 1,000 Randomized Lotteries

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JB Cullen, B Jacob… - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. …, 2002 - time.dufe.edu.cn
Abstract School choice programs are an increasingly popular strategy employed by urban
school districts seeking to attract and retain high ability and middle class students in the
public school system. To test the effectiveness of this strategy, we utilize detailed ...
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[PDF] Adjusting Citywide ITBS Scores for Students' Retention in Grades Three, Six, and Eight

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JQ Easton, B Jacob, S Luppescu… - 1998 - ccsr.uchicago.edu
This is a new format for presenting findings from the Consortium on Chicago School
Research, departing from our regular, more comprehensive, indepth studies. As the name
suggests, this is a short report focusing on a single topic. The data brief is designed to ...
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Can the Federal Government Improve Education Research?

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B Jacob, J Ludwig, R Boruch… - Brookings papers on …, 2005 - JSTOR
Recent dissatisfaction with public education in the United States has been matched by
dismay with the current state of education research. A common complaint is that education
research is good at description and hypothesis generation but not at answering causal ...
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[CITATION] Forthcoming." Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating."

BA Jacob… - Quarterly Journal of Economics
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[CITATION] The Effects of Means-Tested Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: New Evidence from a Housing Voucher Lottery. Presentation prepared for a Joint …

BA Jacob… - Revising Rental Housing: A National Policy Summit,” …, 2006
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[CITATION] Making the grade: The impact of test-based accountability in schools

BA Jacob - Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University ( …, 2002
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[CITATION] The Effects of Family Resources on Children's Outcomes

BA Jacob… - 2009 - Working Paper, University of …
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The Short-Term and Localized Effect of Gun Shows: Evidence from California and Texas

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M Duggan, R Hjalmarsson… - Review of Economics and …, 2011 - MIT Press
Page 1. THE SHORT-TERM AND LOCALIZED EFFECT OF GUN SHOWS: EVIDENCE
FROM CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS Mark Duggan, Randi Hjalmarsson, and Brian A.
Jacob Abstract—We examine the effect of more than 3,400 ...
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[CITATION] The Effect of Means-Tested Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: New Evidence from a Housing Voucher Lottery

BA Jacob… - a Joint Center for Housing Studies symposium,“ …, 2006
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[CITATION] Teacher attitudes toward pay for performance: Evidence from Hillsborough County

B Jacob… - 2010 - Florida.(Working Paper). Nashville: …
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[CITATION] Steven Levitt, 2003,“The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries”

J Cullen… - NBER Working Paper
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[CITATION] Steven Levitt. 2003.“

J Cullen… - The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: …
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[CITATION] Essays on Kant's Anthropology, edited by Brian Jacobs and Patrick Kain

J Brian - 2003 - Cambridge University Press, …
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[CITATION] The effects of family income on youth outcomes: Evidence from a randomized housing-voucher experiment

B Jacob… - 2006 - National Bureau of Economic …
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[CITATION] pPublic Housing

B Jacob - … Vouchers, and Student Achievement: Evidence from …, 2003
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The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program on the College Enrollment, Borrowing and Work Behavior of Low-Income Minority Students

SL DesJardins, BP McCall, J DiNardo, B Jacob… - 2006 - mail.eaer.org
... Gates Foundation. Acknowledgments: Helpful comments were provided by Josh Angrist, Orely
Ashenfelter, John DiNardo, Brian Jacob, William Shadish, and the participants at the Industrial
Relations Section/ Education Research Section seminar at Princeton University. Any ...
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[CITATION] Forthcoming a." The Impact of Teacher Training on Student Achievement: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Reform Efforts in Chicago."

BA Jacob… - Journal of Human Resources
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[CITATION] Where the Boys Aren't: Non-Cognitive Skills, Returns to School and the Gender Gap in Higher Education,” Economics of Education Review 21, no. 6 (2002 …

BA Jacob - The Homecoming of American College Women: The …, 2006
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[CITATION] Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating, Quarterly Journal of Economics, August

SD Levitt… - 2003
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[CITATION] Forthcoming." The Impact of High-Stakes Testing in Chicago on Student Achievement in the Promotional Gate Grades."

M Roderick, BA Jacob… - Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
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[CITATION] The Demand Side of the Teacher Labor Market

BA Jacob - Unpublished Manuscript, University of Michigan, 2007
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[CITATION] The Effect of No Child Left Behind on School Finance, Organization and Practice

TS Dee, BA Jacob… - 2010 - Working paper. University of Virginia …
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Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers?

BA Jacob - Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2011 - epa.sagepub.com
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[PDF] The effects of housing vouchers on children's outcomes

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BA Jacob… - Ann Arbor, 2007 - ist-socrates.berkeley.edu
Page 1. Preliminary draft, comments welcome Please do not cite or quote THE EFFECTS OF
HOUSING VOUCHERS ON CHILDREN'S OUTCOMES Draft date: October 12, 2007 Brian A.
Jacob University of Michigan and NBER Jens Ludwig University of Chicago and NBER ...
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[CITATION] Forthcoming." Summer in the City: Achievement Gains in Chicago's Summer Bridge Program."

M Roderick, BA Jacob… - Summer Learning: Research, Policies and Programs
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[CITATION] Getting Tough?

BA Jacob - Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2001
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[CITATION] AThe Impact of Teacher Training on Student Achievement: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from School Reform Efforts in Chicago

BA Jacob… - 2001 - … Paper, John F. Kennedy School of …
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Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One? NBER Working Paper No. 14485.

JE Rockoff, BA Jacob, TJ Kane… - National Bureau of …, 2008 - eric.ed.gov
ED503324 - Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You
Recruit One? NBER Working Paper No. 14485.
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[PDF] Organizing Schools to Improve Student Achievement: Start Times, Grade Configurations, and Teacher Assignments

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Achievement: Start Times, Grade Configurations, and Teacher Assignments
DISCUSSION PAPER 2011-08 | SEPTEMBER 2011 Page 2. The ...
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[CITATION] Neighborhood effects on low-income families: Evidence from a randomized housing voucher lottery

J Ludwig, BA Jacob, M Johnson, GJ Duncan… - 2009 - Working Paper, University of …
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What's in a rating?

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BA Jacob… - Economics of Education Review, 2011 - Elsevier
We examine the relationship between the formal ratings that principals give teachers and
a variety of observable teacher characteristics, including proxies for.
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[CITATION] Forthcoming b.“Remedial Education and Student Achievement: A Regression-Discontinuity Analysis.”

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[CITATION] Public Housing, Residential Relocation and Student Outcomes: The Impact of Public Housing Demolition in Chicago

B Jacob - unpublished paper, University of Chicago, 2000
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[CITATION] Forthcoming.“The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement.”

T Dee… - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
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[CITATION] State Standards Rising in Reading but Not in Math

PE Peterson, CX Lastra-Anadón, T Dee, B Jacob… - … -rising-in-reading-but-not-in …, 2010
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[PDF] The impact of research grant funding on scientific productivity

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B Jacob… - Journal of Public Economics, 2011 - www-personal.umich.edu
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a, Lars Lefgren b,⁎ a University of Michigan, United States b Brigham Young University,
United States abstract articleinfo Article history: Received ...
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[CITATION] pDynamics of Criminal Behav'ior

B Jacob, L Lefgren… - Evidence from Weather Shocks. qJournal of Human …, 2007
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[CITATION] " Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating," Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming

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[CITATION] Lost Causes: Mass Media Exposure's Empirical Meanings in Survey Research

BJ Nienhaus - A Critique and Introduction to Commodity Relations', …, 1993
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[CITATION] Evaluating NCLB

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[CITATION] Three essays on education and urban school reform

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New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply

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M Engel… - 2011 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES NEW EVIDENCE ON TEACHER LABOR
SUPPLY Mimi Engel Brian A. Jacob Working Paper 16802 http://www.nber.org/papers/
w16802 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH ...
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The effects of housing assistance on labor supply: Evidence from a voucher lottery

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aer.102.1.272 272 In 2006 the federal government spent around $40 billion on
housing assistance for the poor, substantially more than the ...
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