Brian Jacob

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Brian Jacob is affiliated with the following schools: University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Harvard University

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#2268

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#773

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According to Wikipedia, Brian Aaron Jacob is an American economist and a professor of public policy, economics and education at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy of the University of Michigan. There, he also currently serves as co-director of the Education Policy Initiative and of the Youth Policy Lab. In 2008, Jacob's research on education policy was awarded the David N. Kershaw Award, which is given by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and honours persons who have made a distinguished contribution to the field of public policy analysis and management before the age of 40. His doctoral advisor at the University of Chicago was Freakonomics author Steven Levitt.

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Brian Jacob's Published Works

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Published Works

Can Principals Identify Effective Teachers? Evidence on Subjective Performance Evaluation in Education (2008) (566)
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries (2006) (447)
The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement (2009) (437)
Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One? (2008) (434)
The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity (2007) (430)
Where the Boys Aren&Apos;T: Non-Cognitive Skills, Returns to School and the Gender Gap in Higher Education (2002) (422)
Are Idle Hands the Devil's Workshop? Incapacitation, Concentration and Juvenile Crime (2003) (419)
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools (2000) (415)
The Challenges of Staffing Urban Schools with Effective Teachers (2007) (374)
Public Housing, Housing Vouchers and Student Achievement: Evidence from Public Housing Demolitions in Chicago (2003) (341)
The Effect of Grade Retention on High School Completion (2007) (250)
The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement. NBER Working Paper No. 15531. (2009) (250)
Getting Tough? The Impact of High School Graduation Exams (2001) (234)
The Dynamics of Criminal Behavior: Evidence from Weather Shocks (2004) (234)
Principals as Agents: Subjective Performance Measurement in Education (2005) (217)
The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery (2008) (209)
The Impact of Teacher Training on Student Achievement: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from School Reform Efforts in Chicago (2002) (203)
Educational Expectations and Attainment (2010) (199)
Where the Boys Aren'T: Non-Cognitive Skills, Returns to School and the Gender Gap in Higher Education (2002) (197)
Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher when You Recruit One (2011) (187)
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries (2003) (182)
The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Students, Teachers, and Schools (2010) (163)
What Do Parents Value in Education? An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers. NBER Working Paper No. 11494. (2005) (160)
The impact of no Child Left Behind on student achievement: The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement (2011) (156)
The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning (2010) (146)
Do High School Exit Exams Influence Educational Attainment or Labor Market Performance? (2006) (146)
The Effects of NCLB on School Resources and Practices (2013) (119)
Rational Ignorance in Education: A Field Experiment in Student Plagiarism (2010) (118)
The Impact of Teacher Training on Student Achievement (2004) (115)
The Impact of High-Stakes Testing in Chicago on Student Achievement in Promotional Gate Grades (2002) (110)
The Impact of NIH Postdoctoral Training Grants on Scientific Productivity. (2011) (105)
The Impact of Housing Assistance on Child Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Lottery (2015) (98)
Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children (2008) (98)
The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning Gains (2008) (95)
Organizing Schools to Improve Student Achievement: Start Times, Grade Configurations, and Teacher Assignments. (2011) (90)
Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers? (2010) (89)
Ending Social Promotion: Results from the First Two Years. Charting Reform in Chicago Series 1. (1999) (88)
New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply (2011) (83)
Does Preservice Preparation Matter? Examining an Old Question in New Ways (2014) (83)
Test-Based Accountability and Student Achievement: An Investigation of Differential Performance on Naep and State Assessments (2007) (81)
The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations (2016) (80)
Teacher Applicant Hiring and Teacher Performance: Evidence from Dc Public Schools (2016) (79)
The Effect of Labor Market Information on Community College Students’ Major Choice (2017) (66)
The Measurement of Student Ability in Modern Assessment Systems (2016) (66)
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory (2003) (65)
Online Learning, Offline Outcomes: Online Course Taking and High School Student Performance (2019) (64)
The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: Evidence from Public Schooling (2010) (56)
What Do Parents Value in Education? An Empirical Investigation of Parents&Apos; Revealed Preferences for Teachers (2005) (50)
The Effects of Housing and Neighborhood Conditions on Child Mortality (2011) (50)
The Dynamics of Criminal Behavior (2007) (48)
Educational Expectations and Attainment. NBER Working Paper No. 15683. (2010) (40)
Labor Market Returns to Community College Awards: Evidence from Michigan. A CAPSEE Working Paper. (2015) (40)
Early Exposure to Child Maltreatment and Academic Outcomes (2018) (39)
Helping Children Left Behind: State Aid and the Pursuit of Educational Equity (2005) (37)
The Effect of Employment Protection on Teacher Effort (2013) (36)
The Short-Term and Localized Effect of Gun Shows: Evidence from California and Texas (2011) (34)
What's in a rating? (2011) (31)
Rules and Discretion in the Evaluation of Students and Schools: The Case of the New York Regents Examinations (2011) (29)
The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning Gains. NBER Working Paper No. 14065. (2008) (29)
Human Capital Effects of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Lottery (2014) (28)
Are Expectations Alone Enough? Estimating the Effect of a Mandatory College-Prep Curriculum in Michigan (2016) (28)
In Low-Income Schools, Parents Want Teachers Who Teach; In Affluent Schools, Other Things Matter. (2007) (24)
Can Technology Help Promote Equality of Educational Opportunities? (2016) (22)
Rational Ignorance in Education A Field Experiment in Student Plagiarism (2012) (21)
Prenotification, Incentives, and Survey Modality: An Experimental Test of Methods to Increase Survey Response Rates of School Principals (2012) (21)
How Important are Fixed Effects and Time Trends in Estimating Returns to Schooling? Evidence from a Replication of Jacobson, Lalonde and Sullivan, 2005 (2018) (20)
The Effects of School Size on Parental Involvement and Social Capital: Evidence from the ELS: 2002 (2007) (20)
Measuring Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education (2016) (20)
Using technology to explore social networks and mechanisms underlying peer effects in classrooms. (2008) (20)
Getting Inside Accountability: Lessons from Chicago (2003) (19)
When Principals Rate Teachers: The Best--and the Worst--Stand out. (2006) (18)
To Catch a Cheat. (2004) (17)
Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers? NBER Working Paper No. 15715. (2010) (16)
Family Income, Neighborhood Poverty, and Crime (2010) (15)
Teacher Attitudes on Pay for Performance: A Pilot Study. Working Paper 2007-06. (2007) (14)
Defining Culture in a Multicultural Environment: An Ethnography of Heritage High School (1995) (14)
The Return to Hours Worked within and across Occupations: Implications for the Gender Wage Gap (2019) (13)
THE CHANGING FEDERAL ROLE IN SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY (2017) (12)
The Power of Teacher Selection to Improve Education. Evidence Speaks Reports, Vol 1, #12. (2016) (12)
Evaluating NCLB: Accountability Has Produced Substantial Gains in Math Skills but Not in Reading (2010) (12)
The Impact of Public Housing Demolitions on Student Achievement in Chicago. (2000) (11)
When Evidence is Not Enough: Findings from a Randomized Evaluation of Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction (Ebli) (2015) (11)
Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children. NBER Working Paper No. 14550. (2008) (11)
Differentiated Accountability and Education Production: Evidence from Nclb Waivers (2017) (10)
Estimating the Effects of a Large For-Profit Charter School Operator (2018) (8)
Teacher Attitudes toward Pay for Performance: Evidence from Hillsborough County, Florida. Working Paper 2008-08. (2008) (8)
The Consumption Value of Postsecondary Education (2010) (8)
The Fixed-Effects Model in Returns to Schooling and Its Application to Community Colleges: A Methodological Note. (2016) (7)
Test-Based Accountability and Student Achievement Gains: Theory and Evidence. (2002) (7)
Can the Federal Government Improve Education Research? (2005) (6)
The Consumption Value of Education: Implications for the Postsecondary Market * (2012) (6)
High Stakes in Chicago: Did Chicago's Rising Test Scores Reflect Genuine Academic Improvement? (Research) (2003) (6)
How Does an Accountability Program that Targets Achievement Gaps Affect Student Performance? (2020) (5)
Measuring Up: Assessing Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education (2017) (5)
The COVID-19 Cash Transfer Study II: The Hardship and Mental Health Impacts of an Unconditional Cash Transfer to Low-Income Individuals (2022) (5)
The COVID Cash Transfer Study: The Impacts of an Unconditional Cash Transfer on the Wellbeing of Low-Income Families (2022) (5)
Rational Ignorance in Education (2012) (5)
Measuring Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education. NBER Working Paper No. 22998. (2016) (4)
How Life Outside of School Affects Student Performance in School (2018) (4)
The Effect of Gun Shows on Gun-Related Deaths: Evidence from California and Texas (2008) (4)
REMEDIAL EDUCATION AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: (2012) (4)
Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children. Discussion Paper No. 1352-08. (2008) (4)
Assessing School District Decision-Making: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) (3)
High Stakes in Chicago (2005) (3)
New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply. NBER Working Paper No. 16802. (2011) (3)
Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground (2009) (3)
Student Test Scores: How the Sausage Is Made and Why You Should Care. Evidence Speaks Reports, Vol 1, #25. (2016) (3)
Principled Principals: New Evidence from Chicago Shows They Fire the Least Effective Teachers. (2011) (2)
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes in the United States (2019) (2)
The COVID Cash Transfer Study: The Impacts of a One‐Time Unconditional Cash Transfer on the Well‐Being of Families Receiving SNAP in Twelve States (2023) (2)
Replication data for: The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations (2019) (2)
To Catch a Cheat: The Pressures of Accountability May Encourage School Personnel to Doctor the Results from High-Stakes Tests. Here's How to Stop Them (2004) (2)
The Psychosocial Effects of the Flint Water Crisis on School-Age Children (2021) (2)
Adjusting Citywide ITBS Scores for Student Retention in Grades Three, Six, and Eight. Research Data Brief. (1998) (2)
The Impact of the Michigan Merit Curriculum on High School Math Course-Taking (2016) (2)
The Impacts of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Low-Income Families (2020) (1)
Improving educational outcomes for poor children 2 (2009) (1)
Online Course-Taking and Expansion of Curricular Options in High Schools (2023) (1)
Improving educational outcomes for poor children 2 (2009) (1)
Standards and Excellence: Evidence from Advanced Placement (AP) Exams (2009) (1)
THE POTENTIAL AND LIMITS OF FEDERAL POLICY: A RESPONSE TO LADD (2017) (1)
Corrigendum to “The impact of NIH postdoctoral training grants on scientific productivity” [Res. Policy 40 (2011) 864–874] (2012) (1)
The Effect of Employment Protection on Productivity: Evidence from Changes in Dismissal Policies in the Chicago Public Schools ∗ (2007) (1)
The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations. CEPA Working Paper No. 16-08. (2016) (1)
ESTIMATING NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS ON LOW-INCOME YOUTH August 20, 2009 (2009) (1)
What Do Parents Value in Education? An Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers (2005) (1)
Chapter 3. Educational Interventions: Their Effects on the Achievement of Poor Children (2011) (1)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES GIFFEN BEHAVIOR: THEORY AND EVIDENCE (2007) (0)
Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children (2008) (0)
New Evidence on the Benefits of Small Group Math Instruction for Young Children. Evidence Speaks Reports, Vol 2, #55. (2018) (0)
Can nudging mentors weaken student support? Experimental evidence from a virtual communication intervention (2021) (0)
How Important are Fixed Effects and Time Trends in Estimating Returns to Schooling? Evidence Froma Replication of Jacobson, Lalonde and Sullivan, 2005 (2017) (0)
Editors' Summary (2011) (0)
The Impact of Summer Youth Employment on Youth Outcomes (2019) (0)
Taking Account of Accountability: Assessing Politics and Policy (2012) (0)
Forthcoming in Brookings Papers on Education Policy 2005 CAN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IMPROVE EDUCATION RESEARCH (2005) (0)
Lottery-Based Evaluations of Early Education Programs: Opportunities and Challenges for Building the Next Generation of Evidence (2023) (0)
Material hardship and mental health among low-income families during COVID-19: experimental evidence from an unconditional cash transfer (2020) (0)
Comments and Discussion (2022) (0)
Taking Account of Accountability: Assessing Politics and Policy (2012) (0)
Title : Measuring the Impact of the Michigan Merit Curriculum and Promise Scholarship : (2010) (0)
419 9 Family Income , Neighborhood Poverty , and Crime (2013) (0)
The “ Third Way ” of Education Reform ? (2005) (0)
Teachers, Schools, and Student Performance (2016) (0)

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