David Figlio
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Nicholas Figlio is the Provost of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. He is an American economist who formerly served as the Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He also served as the Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy and is the former director of Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research. He is known for studying school accountability and school choice, as well as the relationship between children's names and their later educational outcomes. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Resources. In 2017, he was elected to the National Academy of Education.
David Figlio's Published Works
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Published Works
- What's in a Grade? School Report Cards and the Housing Market (2004) (536)
- Is It Live or Is It Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning (2010) (373)
- Individual Teacher Incentives and Student Performance (2006) (347)
- Do Accountability and Voucher Threats Improve Low-Performing Schools? (2005) (291)
- Do States Play Welfare Games (1999) (278)
- Accounting for the decline in AFDC caseloads: Welfare reform or the economy? (2000) (275)
- Testing, Crime and Punishment (2005) (273)
- Boys Named Sue: Disruptive Children and Their Peers (2005) (263)
- Value Added of Teachers in High Poverty Schools and Lower Poverty Schools (2010) (248)
- The Effects of Poor Neonatal Health on Children's Cognitive Development (2014) (233)
- Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes (2016) (218)
- Competition between Private and Public Schools: Testing Stratification and Pricing Predictions (2000) (212)
- Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure (2007) (195)
- School Choice and the Distributional Effects of Ability Tracking: Does Separation Increase Equality? (2000) (188)
- Do High Grading Standards Affect Student Performance? (2000) (178)
- Teacher salaries and teacher quality (1997) (178)
- Did the “tax revolt” reduce school performance? (1997) (164)
- Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers? (2013) (157)
- Functional form and the estimated effects of school resources (1999) (155)
- Names, Expectations and the Black-White Test Score Gap (2005) (150)
- Can Public Schools Buy Better-Qualified Teachers? (2002) (132)
- Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure. Working Paper 13. (2007) (128)
- Food Stamp Caseloads over the Business Cycle (2003) (127)
- Competitive Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers (2010) (125)
- The Effects of Poor Neonatal Health on Children's Cognitive Development (WP-13-08) (2013) (112)
- What's in a Grade? School Report Cards and House Prices (2000) (106)
- School Finance Reforms, Tax Limits, and Student Performance: Do Reforms Level-Up or Dumb Down? (1998) (104)
- Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance (2016) (100)
- Accounting for the Decline in AFDC Caseloads : Welfare Reform or Economic Growth ? (1997) (93)
- Does prenatal WIC participation improve birth outcomes? New evidence from Florida (2009) (90)
- Chapter 8 – School Accountability (2011) (90)
- The Effects of the Macroeconomy and Welfare Reform on Food Stamp Caseloads (2000) (89)
- School Accountability and Teacher Mobility (2010) (89)
- School Choice and Student Performance : Are Private Schools Really Better ? (1997) (87)
- Can Public Policy Affect Private School Cream-Skimming? Occasional Paper. (2001) (85)
- Public sector performance measurement and stakeholder support (2009) (82)
- School accountability and student achievement (2007) (72)
- Tax limits and the qualifications of new teachers (2001) (65)
- Sex, Drugs, and Catholic Schools: Private Schooling and Non-Market Adolescent Behaviors (2000) (63)
- The Local Response to Tax Limitation Measures: Do Local Governments Manipulate Voters to Increase Revenues?* (2001) (61)
- Accountability in US Education: Applying Lessons from K-12 Experience to Higher Education (2016) (60)
- The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Local Communities (2000) (58)
- Do Tax and Expenditure Limits Provide a Free Lunch? Evidence on the Link Between Limits and Public Sector Service Quality (1999) (57)
- School Starting Age and Cognitive Development (2017) (56)
- SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF A 1990S-ERA PROPERTY TAX LIMIT: PANEL EVIDENCE ON OREGON'S MEASURE 5 (1998) (56)
- Evaluation of Ohio's EdChoice Scholarship Program: Selection, Competition, and Performance Effects. (2016) (54)
- Suburbanization, Demographic Change and the Consequences for School Finance (2010) (53)
- Birth Order and Delinquency: Evidence from Denmark and Florida (2017) (51)
- Socioeconomic status and genetic influences on cognitive development (2017) (49)
- Education Research and Administrative Data (2015) (48)
- Are private schools really better (2012) (46)
- School Quality and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement (WP-16-01) (2016) (44)
- School Quality and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement (2016) (40)
- Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math (2019) (39)
- Trends in the Publication of Empirical Economics (1994) (39)
- Who uses a means-tested scholarship, and what do they choose? (2010) (35)
- Unwelcome Guests? The Effects of Refugees on the Educational Outcomes of Incumbent Students (2017) (34)
- The Effects of Direct Foreign Investment on Local Communities (1999) (33)
- Political economy of the inequality in school spending (2004) (31)
- The Effect of Drinking Age Laws and Alcohol‐Related Crashes: Time‐Series Evidence from Wisconsin (1995) (30)
- Voting for Protection: Does Direct Foreign Investment Influence Legislator Behavior? (1998) (30)
- Evidence that prenatal testosterone transfer from male twins reduces the fertility and socioeconomic success of their female co-twins (2019) (29)
- Can School Choice and School Accountability Successfully Coexist? (2003) (28)
- Educational Performance of Children Born Prematurely (2017) (27)
- Maternal and Infant Factors Associated With Excess Kindergarten Costs (2004) (27)
- Inequality Before Birth: The Developmental Consequences of Environmental Toxicants (2016) (27)
- Cramming: The Effects of School Accountability on College-Bound Students (2006) (26)
- Welfare Reform and Food Stamp Caseload Dynamics (2000) (26)
- Political Shirking, Opponent Quality, and Electoral Support (2000) (26)
- The Effect of Retirement On Political Shirking: Evidence From Congressional Voting (1995) (26)
- The Review of Economics and Statistics (2012) (21)
- Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers? NBER Working Paper No. 19406. (2013) (21)
- School Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education Identification (2019) (20)
- Testing, Stress, and Performance: How Students Respond Physiologically to High-Stakes Testing (2018) (20)
- The Developmental Consequences of Superfund Sites (2020) (19)
- Do students benefit from longer school days? Regression discontinuity evidence from Florida's additional hour of literacy instruction (2018) (19)
- Information Shocks and the Take‐Up of Social Programs (2015) (19)
- Tax and expenditure limits, school finance, and school quality (2007) (19)
- Sex, Drugs, and Catholic Schools: Private Schooling and Non-Market Adolescent Behaviors. Occasional Paper. (2000) (19)
- The Promise of Administrative Data in Education Research (2017) (19)
- Economic Inequality and the Provision of Schooling (1999) (18)
- School Accountability and Teacher Mobility. NBER Working Paper No. 16070. (2010) (17)
- Long-term Cognitive and Health Outcomes of School-Aged Children Who Were Born Late-Term vs Full-Term. (2016) (16)
- SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY AND SCHOOL CHOICE: EFFECTS ON STUDENT SELECTION ACROSS SCHOOLS (2015) (16)
- The Behavioral Consequences of Pre-Kindergarten Participation for Disadvantaged Youth (2007) (15)
- Cross-Generational Differences in Educational Outcomes in the Second Great Wave of Immigration (2016) (14)
- Leaving No Child Behind: Two Paths to School Accountability. Working Paper. (2009) (13)
- Information Shocks and Social Networks (2011) (12)
- Competitive Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers. NBER Working Paper No. 16056. (2010) (12)
- Do Accountability and Voucher Threats Improve Low-Performing Schools? NBER Working Paper No. 11597. (2005) (11)
- Names, Expectations and Black Children's Achievement (2003) (11)
- Geographic Differences in AFDC and Food Stamp Caseloads in the Welfare Reform Era (2000) (10)
- Does competition improve public schools? New evidence from the Florida tax-credit scholarship program (2011) (10)
- Individual Teacher Incentives and Student Performance. Working Paper 8. (2007) (9)
- Are great teachers poor scholars ? (2017) (9)
- Males at the Tails: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap (2020) (8)
- The Role of Neonatal Health in the Incidence of Childhood Disability (2019) (8)
- Bank Consolidations and Minority Neighborhoods (1999) (8)
- Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students (2021) (7)
- Can School Choice and School Accountability Successfully Coexist (2003) (7)
- Clubs and Networks in Economics Reviewing (2022) (6)
- Effects of Scaling Up Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students (2020) (6)
- What might school accountability do (2001) (6)
- Asymmetric Policy Interaction among Subnational Governments : Do States Play Welfare Games ? (1998) (6)
- School Accountability and Teacher Mobility. Working Paper 47. (2010) (6)
- WHAT IS THE APPROPRIATE ROLE FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS ? (2003) (5)
- Fiscal Implications of School Accountability Initiatives (2003) (5)
- The Uneven Implementation of Universal School Policies: Maternal Education and Florida's Mandatory Grade Retention Policy (2019) (5)
- Empirically Examining the Performance of Approaches to Multi-Level Matching to Study the Effect of School-Level Interventions. (2013) (5)
- Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance. Working Paper 174. (2017) (5)
- Small-for-Gestational Age Birth Confers Similar Educational Performance through Middle School. (2019) (4)
- An Extra Year to Learn English? Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners (2019) (4)
- The Gentleman's "A": New Evidence on the Effects of Grade Inflation. (2004) (3)
- Individual Teacher Incentives And Student Performance * Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) (2006) (3)
- High Grading Standards Improve Student Performance (2004) (3)
- Tax Revolts and School Performance (2002) (3)
- Affect Private School Cream-Skimming ? (2001) (3)
- The Policy Choices of Effective Principals. (2011) (3)
- Some Schools Much Better than Others at Closing Achievement Gaps between Their Advantaged and Disadvantaged Students. Evidence Speaks Reports, Vol 2, #19. (2017) (3)
- Improving educational outcomes for disadvantaged children (2008) (2)
- The Effects of Negative Equity on Children’s Educational Outcomes (2021) (2)
- Competitive Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers. Working Paper 46. (2010) (2)
- The economics of school accountability (2010) (2)
- Staffing the Higher Education Classroom (2021) (2)
- The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon (2021) (2)
- School Reforms and Low-Income Families: Getting Ahead in an Era Beyond Welfare Reform (2009) (2)
- Improving educational outcomes for disadvantaged children (2008) (2)
- Education Research and Administrative Data (WP-15-13) (2015) (1)
- Birth Conditions and Special Education Costs at Kindergarten. (2002) (1)
- Introduction to “Are Private Schools Really Better?” (2012) (1)
- Equal Treatment as a Means of Evaluating Public School Assignment Mechanisms (2013) (1)
- Introducing Education Finance and Policy (2006) (1)
- The Effects of Pre-kindergarten Participation on Behavioral Outcomes (2009) (1)
- School reforms and improved life outcomes for disadvantaged children (2009) (1)
- Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers? (WP-13-18) (2013) (1)
- Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance (WP-16-12) (2016) (1)
- How much flexibility do we need? (2011) (1)
- Did Tenure Reform in Florida Affect Student Test Scores ? (2018) (1)
- A Population Level Study of the Effects of Early Intervention for Autism (2014) (1)
- Evaluating students ’ evaluations of professors ∗ (2010) (1)
- School Starting Age and Cognitive Development (WP-17-16) (2017) (1)
- School Policies and the Success of Advantaged and Disadvantaged Students. Evidence Speaks Reports, Vol 2, #62. (2018) (1)
- School Funding and School Accountability (2004) (1)
- Grade inflation sending the wrong message (2004) (0)
- The Unintended Consequences of Test-Based Remediation (2023) (0)
- What Might School Accountability Do? (Research Summaries) (2001) (0)
- School Accountability and the Education of Low-Income Children (2003) (0)
- Long-term cognitive and health outcomes of school-aged children who were born late-term vs full-term (2016) (0)
- Replication data for: Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes (2019) (0)
- School Starting Age and Cognitive Development. Working Paper 191. (2018) (0)
- Replication data for: School Quality and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement (2019) (0)
- Effects of Maturing Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students David Figlio, Cassandra Hart and Krzysztof Karbownik Online Appendix (2022) (0)
- Editorial Collaborators (2000) (0)
- Can School Choice and School Accountability Coexist Successfully (2003) (0)
- Adolescent cortisol responses to high-stakes testing in school-based settings (2017) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY AND TEACHER MOBILITY (2010) (0)
- Commentary on Chapter 6 (2017) (0)
- Competitive Effects of Charter Schools (2021) (0)
- C. Interrupted Time Series with Comparison Groups: The Effect of Drinking Age Laws and Alcohol-Related Crashes: Time-Series Evidence from Wisconsin (2009) (0)
- The Effects of Negative Equity on Children's Educational Outcomes (2021) (0)
- 5404 The Information Value of Central School Exams (2015) (0)
- Competitive Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers (WP-10-03) (2010) (0)
- Birth Order and Delinquency: Evidence from Denmark and Florida (WP-17-02) (2017) (0)
- Series WP-1003 Competitive Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers (2010) (0)
- Series WP-15-16 Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes (2015) (0)
- Public Sector Performance Measurement and Stakeholder Support (WP-09-08) (2009) (0)
- Series WP-09-08 Public Sector Performance Measurement and Stakeholder Support (2009) (0)
- School Accountability and Teacher Mobility (WP-10-06) (2010) (0)
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