James Wyckoff
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American economist
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James Wyckoff's Degrees
- PhD Economics University of Chicago
- Masters Economics University of Chicago
- Bachelors Economics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James H. Wyckoff is a U.S.-American education economist who currently serves as Memorial Professor of Education and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, where he is also the Director of the Center for Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness. His research on the impact of teacher compensation on teacher performance has been awarded the Raymond Vernon Memorial Award of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in 2015.
James Wyckoff's Published Works
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Published Works
- Teacher Sorting and the Plight of Urban Schools: A Descriptive Analysis (2002) (1502)
- How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement (2011) (1133)
- The Influence of School Administrators on Teacher Retention Decisions (2011) (672)
- How Changes in Entry Requirements Alter the Teacher Workforce and Affect Student Achievement (2005) (618)
- Explaining the Short Careers of High-Achieving Teachers in Schools with Low-Performing Students (2005) (519)
- The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools (2007) (441)
- The Draw of Home: How Teachers&Apos; Preferences for Proximity Disadvantage Urban Schools (2003) (389)
- Who Leaves? Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement (2008) (325)
- Measure for Measure: The Relationship between Measures of Instructional Practice in Middle School English Language Arts and Teachers’ Value-Added Scores (2010) (245)
- The Draw of Home: How Teachers' Preferences for Proximity Disadvantage Urban Schools. NBER Working Paper. (2003) (211)
- The Effect of Certification and Preparation on Teacher Quality (2007) (207)
- The Role of Teacher Quality in Retention and Hiring: Using Applications-to-Transfer to Uncover Preferences of Teachers and Schools (2010) (205)
- Primary and secondary school choice among public and religious alternatives (1992) (157)
- Teacher Turnover, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement in DCPS (2016) (156)
- Analyzing the Determinants of the Matching of Public School Teachers to Jobs: Disentangling the Preferences of Teachers and Employers (2013) (133)
- Complex by Design (2006) (110)
- Analyzing the Determinants of the Matching Public School Teachers to Jobs: Estimating Compensating Differentials in Imperfect Labor Markets (2003) (95)
- Who Would Be Left Behind by Enhanced Private School Choice (2001) (89)
- Surveying the Landscape of Teacher Education in New York City: Constrained Variation and the Challenge of Innovation (2008) (88)
- An Analysis of Elementary and Secondary School Choice (1995) (86)
- Modeling Charitable Giving Using a Box-Cox Standard Tobit Model (1991) (85)
- The Attributes and Career Paths of Principals: Implications for Improving Policy (2002) (84)
- Who Leaves? Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement. NBER Working Paper No. 14022. (2008) (78)
- The Effect of School Choice and Residential Location on the Racial Segregation of Students (2006) (78)
- Teacher Layoffs: An Empirical Illustration of Seniority versus Measures of Effectiveness (2011) (66)
- Measure for Measure: The Relationship between Measures of Instructional Practice in Middle School English Language Arts and Teachers' Value-Added Scores. Working Paper 45. (2010) (66)
- Who Enters Teaching? Encouraging Evidence That the Status of Teaching Is Improving (2014) (60)
- The Impact of Assessment and Accountability on Teacher Recruitment and Retention (2008) (60)
- Different Skills? Identifying Differentially Effective Teachers of English Language Learners (2016) (59)
- Do First Impressions Matter? Predicting Early Career Teacher Effectiveness (2015) (59)
- Recruiting Effective Math Teachers: Evidence From New York City (2012) (59)
- The changing structure of teacher compensation, 1970-1994 (1997) (56)
- Small-Area Estimates of School-Age Children in Poverty: Evaluation of Current Methodology (1997) (55)
- Where Has the Money Gone? An Analysis of School District Spending in New York (1995) (44)
- "Who Leaves?" Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement. Working Paper 23. (2009) (43)
- The Effectiveness and Retention of Teachers with Prior Career Experience. (2011) (42)
- Do First Impressions Matter? Improvement in Early Career Teacher Effectiveness (2013) (42)
- Teacher Churning (2017) (40)
- How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement. NBER Working Paper No. 17176. (2011) (40)
- Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement. NBER Working Paper No. 14314. (2008) (37)
- The intrastate equality of public primary and secondary education resources in the U.S., 1980–1987 (1992) (37)
- Performance Screens for School Improvement (2015) (36)
- Measuring Effect Sizes: the Effect of Measurement Error (2008) (36)
- The nonexcludable publicness of primary and secondary public education (1984) (32)
- The Effect of School Neighborhoods on Teacher Career Decisions (2010) (32)
- Recruiting Effective Math Teachers: How Do Math Immersion Teachers Compare?: Evidence from New York City (2010) (28)
- Initial matches, transfers, and quits: Career decisions and the disparities in average teacher qualifications across schools (2002) (28)
- The Demand for School Lunches: An Analysis of Individual Participation in the School Lunch Program (1983) (27)
- Understanding teacher labor markets: Implications for educational equity (2003) (22)
- ESTIMATES OF TAX-DEFERRED RETIREMENT SAVINGS BEHAVIOR (1988) (21)
- Increasing the Effectiveness of Teachers in Low-Performing Schools (2007) (17)
- Policy Implementation, Principal Agency, and Strategic Action: Improving Teaching Effectiveness in New York City Middle Schools (2020) (16)
- Measuring Test Measurement Error (2012) (16)
- Recruiting, evaluating and retaining teachers: The children first strategy to improve New York City's teachers (2011) (15)
- INVESTIGATING PATHWAYS INTO TEACHING IN NEW YORK CITY SCHOOLS (2006) (15)
- Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement. Working Paper 20. (2008) (12)
- Measuring Test Measurement Error: A General Approach (2012) (12)
- Overview of Measuring Effect Sizes: The Effect of Measurement Error. Brief 2. (2008) (11)
- The effect of school neighborhoods on teacher retention decisions (2011) (11)
- More Than Content: The Persistent Cross-Subject Effects of English Language Arts Teachers’ Instruction (2017) (10)
- Teacher Evaluation and Teacher Turnover in Equilibrium: Evidence From DC Public Schools (2020) (10)
- Teacher Layoffs: An Empirical Illustration of Seniority vs. Measures of Effectiveness. Brief 12. (2010) (10)
- Educational finance to support high learning standards: a synthesis ☆ (2000) (9)
- Has Medicaid growth crowded out state educational spending? (1996) (9)
- The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools. Brief 6. (2008) (8)
- Is Effective Teacher Evaluation Sustainable? Evidence from District of Columbia Public Schools (2021) (8)
- A Lasting Impact: High-Stakes Teacher Evaluations Drive Student Success in Washington, D.C (2017) (7)
- The preparation and recruitment of teachers: A labor-market framework (2004) (6)
- Policy Makers and Researchers Schooling Each Other: Lessons in Educational Policy from New York (2013) (6)
- School District Expenditures and Fiscal Stress. Condition Report Prepared for the Education Finance Research Consortium. (2002) (5)
- Learning to Teach in New York City: How Teachers and Schools Jointly Determine the Implementation of a Districtwide Mentoring Program (2012) (4)
- Teacher labor markets: An overview (2020) (4)
- Alternative certification in the long run: Student achievement, teacher retention and the distribution of teacher quality in New York city (2011) (4)
- Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas (2009) (4)
- Improving Science Achievement: The Role of Teacher Workforce Policies (2005) (4)
- The Dynamics of Teacher Salary Expense (1998) (4)
- An Overview of Teacher Labor Markets (2010) (3)
- High Rates of Within-School Teacher Reassignments and Implications for Student Achievement. Working Paper 151. (2016) (3)
- The Imperative of 480 Schools (2006) (3)
- Policies to Improve Teacher Quality (2017) (2)
- Chapter 18 The Effect of School Neighborhoods on Teachers ’ Career Decisions (2010) (1)
- Student achievement and teacher turnover what is the link ? (2013) (1)
- Title: Learning that Lasts: Understanding Variation in Teachers’ Effects on Students’ Long-Term Knowledge (2014) (1)
- Teacher Turnover and Student Achievement in DC Public Schools (2015) (1)
- Section on Social and Institutional Analysis (2013) (0)
- THE DESIGN AND PRACTICE OF U.S. TEACHER EVALUATION (2019) (0)
- The publicness of public sector activities : an application to public primary and secondary education (1982) (0)
- Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in the Relationship Between Children’s Early Literacy Skills and Third-Grade Outcomes: Lessons From a Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (2022) (0)
- Teacher Coaching at Scale in Washington, D.C. Public Schools (2019) (0)
- Unnecessary Disruptions? Implications of the Volatility of Within-School Reassignments on Student Achievement. CEPA Working Paper No. 15-13. (2015) (0)
- Variation and the Challenge of Innovation Surveying the Landscape of Teacher Education in New York City : Constrained (2008) (0)
- Intergovernmental Influences on Medicaid Program Expenditures: Comments and Additional Evidence (1989) (0)
- Assessing the Long-term Stability of Estimated Teacher Per formance (2012) (0)
- Principals Strategies to Improve Teaching: The Case of Tenure Reform? (2017) (0)
- Allocative Effects of Tax Substitution on Primary and Secondary Education (1982) (0)
- Fostering Faculty Diversity by Supporting Access to Graduate Study in Education (2020) (0)
- SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM (2016) (0)
- Tracking the Changing Pattern of School District Expenditures in New York State (1994) (0)
- Measuring Returns to Experience Using Supervisor Ratings of Observed Performance: The Case of Classroom Teachers (2023) (0)
- Teacher Labor Markets (2021) (0)
- Teacher Evaluation and Teacher Turnover, New Evidence from District of Columbia Public Schools (2019) (0)
- The Role of State Education Regulation: Evidence from the Texas Districts of Innovation Statute (2021) (0)
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