Richard Murnane

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According to Wikipedia, Richard John Murnane is an economist and the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has made important contributions to our understanding of education policy and the relationship between the economy and education. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and coauthored a number of books. His research has investigated what skills are required to earn a middle-class living in the U.S., the significance of the GED, and teacher quality. Murnane earned his Ph.D. at Yale University and is a winner of the Morningstar Family Teaching Award.

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U.S. Earnings Levels and Earnings Inequality: A Review of Recent Trends and Proposed Explanations (1992) (1654)
The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination (1995) (1278)
The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market (2003) (908)
Whither Opportunity?: Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances (2011) (653)
Methods Matter: Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research (2010) (550)
Merit Pay and the Evaluation Problem: Why Most Merit Pay Plans Fail and a Few Survive (1986) (457)
Teaching the New Basic Skills. Principles for Educating Children To Thrive in a Changing Economy. (1996) (432)
The Impact of School Resources on the Learning of Inner City Children. (1976) (427)
The Effects of Salaries and Opportunity Costs on Length of Stay in Teaching: Evidence from North Carolina. (1990) (352)
A globally consistent reanalysis of hurricane variability and trends (2007) (349)
How important are the cognitive skills of teenagers in predicting subsequent earnings (2000) (310)
The Effects of Salaries and Opportunity Costs on Duration in Teaching: Evidence from Michigan (1989) (260)
U.S High School Graduation Rates: Patterns and Explanations (2013) (258)
Data Wise: A Step by Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning. Revised and Expanded Edition. (2013) (258)
Estimating the Labor Market Signaling Value of the GED (2000) (253)
What do effective teachers of inner-city children have in common? (1981) (251)
Upstairs, Downstairs: Computers and Skills on Two Floors of a Large Bank (2001) (239)
Low-Wage America: How Employers are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace (2006) (229)
Teaching The New Basic Skills (1996) (228)
What Is the Problem? The Challenge of Providing Effective Teachers for All Children (2007) (211)
Do Teacher Absences Impact Student Achievement? Longitudinal Evidence From One Urban School District (2007) (208)
The New Division of Labor (2004) (203)
Learning by doing, vintage, and selection: Three pieces of the puzzle relating teaching experience and teaching performance (1981) (202)
With What Skills Are Computers a Complement (1996) (192)
Do different dimensions of male high school students' skills predict labor market success a decade later? Evidence from the NLSY (2001) (180)
The Influences of Salaries and "Opportunity Costs" on Teachers' Career Choices: Evidence from North Carolina (1989) (179)
Home Resources and Children's Achievement. (1981) (174)
Testing global ocean carbon cycle models using measurements of atmospheric O2 and CO2 concentration (1998) (167)
Who Benefits from Obtaining a GED? Evidence from High School and Beyond (1999) (161)
Using Panel Data to Improve Estimates of the Determinants of Educational Achievement. (1979) (157)
Estimating Hurricane Wind Structure in the Absence of Aircraft Reconnaissance (2007) (155)
The Career Paths of Teachers: Implications for Teacher Supply and Methodological Lessons for Research. (1988) (151)
The Contribution of Training and Subject Matter Knowledge to Teaching Effectiveness: A Multilevel Analysis of Longitudinal Evidence from Belize (1996) (151)
Interpreting the Evidence on School Effectiveness (1981) (146)
Improving the Education of Children Living in Poverty (2007) (141)
Improving Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: Lessons from Rigorous Evaluations (2014) (130)
Extending the regression-discontinuity approach to multiple assignment variables (2011) (129)
Literacy Challenges for the Twenty-First Century: Introducing the Issue (2013) (128)
Do Financial Incentives Help Low-Performing Schools Attract and Keep Academically Talented Teachers? Evidence from California (2009) (125)
Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education (2014) (120)
How Computerized Work and Globalization Shape Human Skill Demands (2006) (116)
Introduction: The American dream, then and now (2011) (115)
Comparing Public and Private Schools: The Puzzling Role of Selectivity Bias (1985) (114)
Do High School Dropouts Benefit From Obtaining a GED? (1995) (113)
Hurricanes and typhoons : past, present, and future (2004) (109)
Spatial distribution of air‐sea CO2 fluxes and the interhemispheric transport of carbon by the oceans (1999) (106)
Teacher Mobility Revisited (1981) (104)
The State of Wiki Usage in U.S. K–12 Schools (2012) (103)
Germanium and silicon in rivers of the Orinoco drainage basin (1990) (103)
AIR-SEA CO2 TRANSFER AND THE CARBON BUDGET OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC (1995) (102)
Improving Education in Developing Countries (2016) (100)
Understanding Trends in the Black-White Achievement Gaps during the First Years of School (2006) (95)
The Consequences of High School Exit Examinations for Low-Performing Urban Students: Evidence From Massachusetts (2010) (93)
Sea‐air CO2 fluxes and carbon transport: A comparison of three ocean general circulation models (2000) (88)
Representation of the carbon cycle in box models and GCMs: 1. Solubility pump (2003) (87)
Using Student-Assessment Results to Improve Instruction: Lessons From a Workshop (2005) (84)
Production and innovation when techniques are tacit: The case of education (1984) (82)
Education and the Changing Job Market. (2004) (80)
Representation of the carbon cycle in box models and GCMs, 2, Organic pump (2003) (79)
Improving Indicators of the Quality of Science and Mathematics Education in Grades K-12. (1988) (78)
Climate Extremes and Society: Index (2008) (77)
Maximum wind speeds and US hurricane losses (2012) (73)
The Effects of a Negative Income Tax on School Performance: Results of an Experiment. (1979) (73)
Tough Choices in Designing a Formative Assessment System (2006) (68)
From High School To Teaching: Many Steps, Who Makes It?. (2001) (68)
Upstairs, Downstairs: Computer-Skill Complementarity and Computer-Labor Substitution on Two Floors of a Large Bank (2000) (67)
Selection and Survival in the Teacher Labor Market (1984) (67)
Implications for Teacher Supply and Methodological Lessons for Research (1988) (64)
Improving Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: Lessons from Rigorous Impact Evaluations (2014) (62)
Merit Pay and the Evaluation Problem: Understanding Why Most Merit Pay Plans Fail and a Few Survive. (1985) (59)
Do worker absences affect productivity? The case of teachers (2008) (58)
RECENT TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE: AN EMPIRICAL EXPLORATION* (2003) (57)
Do Male Dropouts Benefit from Obtaining a GED, Postsecondary Education, and Training? (1999) (56)
Improving Education Indicators and Economic Indicators: The Same Problems? (1987) (55)
Does a Ged Lead to More Training, Post-Secondary Education, and Military Service for School Dropouts? (1997) (55)
Teachers' Views on No Child Left Behind: Support for the Principles, Concerns about the Practices (2010) (54)
Nontronite from a low-temperature hydrothermal system on the Juan de Fuca Ridge (1983) (54)
A Review Essay-Comparisons of Public and Private Schools: Lessons from the Uproar (1984) (54)
Forecasting U.S. hurricanes 6 months in advance (2006) (53)
Thorium isotopes, particle cycling models, and inverse calculations of model rate constants (1990) (52)
Least-squares estimates of thorium, particle, and nutrient cycling rate constants from the JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment (1996) (52)
Estimates of particle- and thorium-cycling rates in the northwest Atlantic Ocean (1994) (50)
Who benefits from a GED? Evidence for females from High School and Beyond (2003) (47)
The merits of merit pay (1985) (46)
The Impact of Test Score Labels on Human-Capital Investment Decisions (2016) (44)
Achievement Gaps in the Wake of COVID-19 (2021) (42)
Does Acquisition of a Ged Lead to More Training, Post-Secondary Education, and Military Service for School Dropouts? (1997) (40)
Numerical modeling and field evidence of coastal overwash in southern New England from Hurricane Bob and implications for paleotempestology (2007) (40)
Growing Income Inequality Threatens American Education (2014) (39)
Why today's high-school-educated males earn less than their fathers did: the problem and an assessment of responses (1993) (37)
The School as a Workplace: What Matters to Teachers?. (1977) (36)
Long-Term Trends in Private School Enrollments by Family Income (2017) (35)
Rising Inequality in Family Incomes and Children's Educational Outcomes (2016) (35)
`Second-Chance' Strategies for Women Who Drop out of School (2000) (35)
Why the changing American economy calls for twenty-first century learning: answers to educators' questions. (2006) (32)
Will There Be Enough Teachers (1989) (32)
How Performance Information Affects Human-Capital Investment Decisions: The Impact of Test-Score Labels on Educational Outcomes (2011) (31)
Expanding School Enrollment by Subsidizing Private Schools: Lessons from Bogotá (2005) (31)
Climate research and reinsurance (2004) (30)
Determination of thorium and particulate matter cycling parameters at station P: A reanalysis and comparison of least squares techniques (1994) (30)
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (2001) (29)
Germanium-silicon fractionation during biogenic opal formation (1988) (29)
High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers: Evidence From Regression-Discontinuity Approaches (2014) (27)
Improving the Performance of the Education Sector: The Valuable, Challenging, and Limited Role of Random Assignment Evaluations (2005) (27)
Are more college graduates really taking 'high school' jobs? (1995) (27)
Do the Cognitive Skills of School Dropouts Matter in the Labor (2000) (27)
New Evidence on the Relationship between Mother's Education and Children's Cognitive Skills. (1981) (26)
Teaching Educators How to Use Student Assessment Data to Improve Instruction (2005) (26)
Estimating the Impact of the Ged on the Earnings of Young Dropouts Using a Series of Natural Experiments (1998) (25)
Evidence, Analysis, and Unanswered Questions (1981) (25)
Germanium geochemistry in the Southern California Borderlands (1989) (24)
Will Standards-Based Reforms Improve the Education of Students of Color? (2001) (23)
Race, Gender, and Opportunity: Supply and Demand for New Teachers in North Carolina, 1975–1985 (1989) (23)
The Consequences of Educational Voucher Reform in Chile (2016) (23)
The Consequences of High School Exit Examinations for Struggling Low-Income Urban Students: Evidence from Massachusetts (2008) (22)
Understanding risk: what makes a risk assessment successful? (2016) (21)
"Second-Chance" Strategies for Female School Dropouts. (2000) (20)
Family Choice in Public Education: The Roles of Students, Teachers, and System Designers (1986) (19)
The "Data Wise" Improvement Process. (2006) (19)
Computerization and Skills: Examples from a Car Dealership (1999) (18)
Low-Wage America (2006) (16)
Catastrophe Risk Models for Wildfires in the Wildland–Urban Interface: What Insurers Need (2006) (15)
Educating Urban Children (2008) (15)
Trends in the Black-White Achievement Gap:Clarifying the Meaning of Within- and Between-School Achievement Gaps (2008) (15)
Income Inequality and the Well‐Being of American Families (2019) (15)
Understanding the Sources of Teaching Competence: Choices, Skills, and the Limits of Training (1983) (15)
Who Goes to Private School? Long-Term Enrollment Trends by Family Income (2018) (15)
High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers: a Multi-Dimensional Regression-Discontinuity Analysis (2011) (15)
Reforming Preschools and Schools. (2016) (14)
Income-Based Inequality in Educational Outcomes (2014) (14)
Organizing an anarchy: Lee Sproull, Stephen Weiner, and David Wolf. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. Pp. 240. $18.00 (cloth) (1981) (14)
Standards, Information, and the Demand for Student Achievement (1998) (14)
Roles of biology and gas exchange in determining the δ13C distribution in the ocean and the preindustrial gradient in atmospheric δ13C (2000) (14)
THE WEATHER RISK MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY'S CLIMATE FORECAST AND DATA NEEDS (2002) (14)
Changes in teacher salaries during the 1970s: The role of school district demographics (1987) (13)
A Spatial Point Process Model for Violent Tornado Occurrence in the US Great Plains (2013) (13)
Can Academic Standards Boost Literacy and Close the Achievement Gap? Policy Brief, Fall 2012. (2012) (13)
School Resources and Student Outcomes : An Overview of the Literature and New Evidence from North and South Carolina David Card (2007) (13)
Seniority Rules and Educational Productivity: Understanding the Consequences of a Mandate for Equality (1981) (12)
How clients' characteristics affect organization performance: Lessons from education (1983) (12)
Effective Teachers of Inner City Children: Who They Are and What They Do. (1978) (11)
Meeting the Educational Challenges of Income Inequality (2014) (10)
Low-wage employment in America: Results from a set of recent industry case studies (2005) (10)
Data schemas for multiple hazards, exposure and vulnerability (2019) (9)
The New Basics. (1997) (9)
Climate Extremes and Society: The significance of weather and climate extremes to society: an introduction (2008) (9)
Are Lots of College Graduates Taking High School Jobs? A Reconsiderationof the Evidence (1995) (9)
A Role for Technology in Professional Development? Lessons from IBM (2004) (8)
Randomized Trials of Education and Medical Practices: Strengths and Limitations (2007) (8)
Future scenarios for earthquake and flood risk in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (2017) (8)
Graduations on the Rise. (2013) (7)
Family Choice in Public Education: Possibilities and Limitations. (1984) (7)
The devil's in the details: evidence from the GED on large effects of small differences in high stakes exams (2004) (7)
Cognitive Skills Matter in the Labor Market, Even for School Dropouts. NCSALL Reports #15. (2000) (6)
Skill Demand, Inequality, and Computerization: Connecting the Dots (2003) (6)
Epistemic Uncertainty, Rival Models, and Closure (2013) (6)
A Civil Society Demands Education for Good Jobs. (1997) (5)
Comment: Stimulating employer-provided general training (1994) (5)
Educating Urban Children. NBER Working Paper No. 13791. (2008) (5)
Income-based Inequality in Educational Outcomes: Learning from State Longitudinal Data Systems (2014) (5)
The State of Wiki Usage in U.S. K-12 Schools: A Summary for Educators (2012) (5)
Increasing the odds (1997) (4)
Why are there Fewer and Fewer Black Teachers (1995) (4)
Assessing, Modeling, and Monitoring the Impacts of Extreme Climate Events (2006) (4)
Robust simulation for sensitivity analysis of catastrophe risk losses (2011) (4)
Inner-City Schools Can Make a Difference. (1981) (4)
The Consequences of MCAS Exit Examinations for Struggling Low- Income Urban Students (2008) (3)
Learning Why More Learning Takes Place in Some Classrooms Than Others (2005) (3)
The Nation's Teaching Force. (1997) (3)
Improving urban public schools: suggestions for teacher union leaders (2002) (3)
Input-Output Research in Education: Accomplishments, Limitations, and Lessons. (1982) (3)
Do Financial Incentives Draw Promising Teachers to Low-Performing Schools? Assessing the Impact of the California Governor's Teaching Fellowship. Policy Brief 10-3. (2010) (3)
Upstairs downstairs: how introducing computer technology changed skills and pay on two floors of Cabot Bank (2002) (3)
Education and Equality in Japan.William K. Cummings (1983) (3)
A Study of Teachers' Interdistrict Job Changes. (1988) (3)
Using Data Profiling, Data Quality, and Data Monitoring to Improve Enterprise Information (2011) (3)
Making Services Work for Poor People A Research Program on Public Services (2002) (3)
The High-Stakes Effects of "Low-Stakes" Testing: Performance Labels Matter to Vulnerable Students (2010) (3)
TEACHER CERTIFICATION RECONSIDERED: STUMBLING (2001) (3)
For now, middle-skilled jobs are the most vulnerable (2006) (3)
9. Education: Educating Urban Children (2009) (2)
From High School to Teaching: Many Steps, who Makes It? (2001) (2)
Where Will All the Smart Kids Work (1992) (2)
Will School Finance Reform Improve Education for Disadvantaged Children? Research Issues (1994) (2)
Inequality and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Massachusetts. (2013) (2)
Aftershocks : remodeling the past for a resilient future (2018) (2)
The Price of Just Failing: Consequences of High School Exit Examinations for Urban Students in Massachusetts. (2009) (2)
ThinkHazard! — Delivering natural hazard information for decision making (2016) (2)
Impacts and uses of seasonal and intraseasonal predictions in the business community with an emphasis on the energy and agricultural industries (2003) (2)
Disaster risk profile : Zanzibar (2016) (2)
WORKSHOP ON TROPICAL CYCLONES AND CLIMATE (2)
Disaster risk profile : Madagascar (2016) (1)
How Good Policies Can Yield Better Teachers (2004) (1)
On the Threshold: Impacts of Barely Passing High-School Exit Exams on Post-Secondary Enrollment and Completion (2022) (1)
Global review of open access risk assessment software packages valid for global or continental scale analysis (2015) (1)
Cognitive Skills Matter In The Labor Market, Even For School Dropouts: NSCALL Reports: (374082004-001) (2013) (1)
Particle cycling rate constants from nutrient particle and thorium isotope data in the NW Atlantic Ocean (1991) (1)
Disaster risk profile : Comoros (2016) (1)
EVOLUTION AT ALUM ROCK (1975) (1)
Incentivizing schooling for learning : (2015) (1)
Educational Policy Research: Progress, Puzzles, and Challenges (2012) (1)
Priorities for Federal Education Statistics. (1985) (1)
Are Public-Service Subsidies Good for the Public? (2010) (1)
The Devil Is in the Details: Evidence from the GED on the Role of Examination System Details in Determining Who Passes. NCSALL Reports #16. (2000) (1)
Distribution of Student Achievement in Chile: Baseline Analysis for the Evaluation of the Subvención Escolar Preferencial (2010) (1)
Growing Income Inequality Threatens American Education: Rising Economic and Social Inequality Has Weakened Neighborhoods and Families in Ways That Make Effective School Reform More Difficult (2014) (1)
Climate Extremes and Society: Preface (2008) (1)
Researching the robot revolution (2014) (1)
Chapter 6. Enabling Skills (2004) (0)
Disaster risk profile : Mauritius (2016) (0)
The Impact of Changing Stduent Enrollment Patterns on the Distribution of Teachers in an Urban School District. (1977) (0)
Developing From Public and Private Resources Earthquake Catalogs Used in Risk Analysis (2009) (0)
Reforming Preschools and Schools - eScholarship (2016) (0)
Climate Extremes and Society: The Risk Prediction Initiative: a successful science–business partnership for analyzing natural hazard risk (2008) (0)
Chapter 2. Why People Still Matter (2004) (0)
Chapter 7. Computers and the Teaching of Skills (2004) (0)
Why are reinsurers interested in climate research?(Formerly Poster JP6.3) (2005) (0)
National-Level Multi-Hazard Risk Assessments in Sub-Saharan Africa (2017) (0)
The Role of Private Schooling in Contributing to the Increase in Inequality of Educational Outcomes Between Children from Low- and High-Income Families (2016) (0)
Article Commentary: The Nation's Teaching Force (1997) (0)
THE CHANGING ROLE OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING TECHNOLOGICAL IONOVATION AND ECONOMIC CHANGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORGANISATION AND PEDAGOGY OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING SYNTHESIS REPORT (2012) (0)
ThinkHazard! - Linking natural hazard information to decision making (2016) (0)
Robert Zemsky and Susan Shaman mapped the educational pipeline and swirl through an analysis of the actual paths of youth surveyed through High School and Beyond and the National Education Longitudinal Study (2001) (0)
Comment (2003) (0)
Books Received (2012) (0)
DETERMINANTS OF EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT (2016) (0)
Biogenic Opal Ge/Si Ratios as a Tracer of Upwelling Intensity in the Monterey Formation, Newport Bay, California (1986) (0)
Commentary on Teacher Pension Papers (2023) (0)
Chapter 4. Expert Thinking (2004) (0)
Chapter 1. New Divisions of Labor (2004) (0)
Charting the Future for AGU's Meetings Program (2016) (0)
Chapter 8. Standards-Based Education Reform in the Computer Age (2004) (0)
"Merit Pay" and the Nature of the Employment Relationship: Lessons from Public School Systems (2007) (0)
American movers and shakers (2017) (0)
Sea-air CO 2 fluxes and carbon transport: A comparison of three ocean general circulation models (2021) (0)
Chapter 3. How Computers Change Work and Pay (2004) (0)
Long-Term Trends in Private School Enrollments by Family Income. CEPA Working Paper No. 17-07. (2017) (0)
Multi-hazard national-level risk assessment in Africa using global approaches (2016) (0)
Rising Income Inequality and Educational Outcomes for Poor Children (2016) (0)
Climate Extremes and Society: Plate section (2008) (0)
Model Rate Constants (1990) (0)
Wages and the university educated : a paradox resolved (1997) (0)
Who Become Certified To Teach, and Who Entered Teaching between 1979 and 1985: Evidence from North Carolina. (1988) (0)
Women Who Drop Out of School (2001) (0)
CHAPTER 1 Low-Wage America : An Overview (2003) (0)
How the Financing of the Public Schools Affects Their Ability to Educate. Final Report of Research Project. (1982) (0)
Book Review:Financing Education: Overcoming Inefficiency and Inequity Walter W. McMahon, Terry G. Geske (1983) (0)
Chapter 9. The Next Ten Years (2004) (0)
Before You Give an Answer, Understand the Problem That People Want Solved (2018) (0)
Chapter 5. Complex Communication (2004) (0)
Solving the Puzzle : Innovating to Reduce Risk Report (2019) (0)
Comments on Arthur E. Wise and Linda Darling-Hammond's “Education by Voucher” (2005) (0)
Biogenic Opal Germanium/Silicon Ratios Used to Monitor Upwelling Intensity in Newport Lagoon Section, Monterey Formation, California: ABSTRACT (1986) (0)
Skills, Demography, and the Economy: Is There a Mismatch? (2019) (0)
S-290: Quantitative Methods for Improving Causal Inference In Educational Research (2011) (0)
CLIMATE RESEARCH A ND REINSURANCE* (2017) (0)
CLIMATE RESEARCH A ND REINSURANCE* (2017) (0)
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with Funding from on Two Floors of a Large Bank on Two Floors of a Large Bank Computers and Skillson Two Floors of Islarge Bank (0)
Indicators of Teaching Effectiveness (1985) (0)
Earthquake and Flood Risk Assessments for Europe and Central Asia (2015) (0)
Comment (2001) (0)
An Open, Extensible Data Schema for Multiple Hazards, Exposure and Vulnerability Data (2018) (0)
Disaster risk profile : Seychelles (2016) (0)
ity Rules and Educatic 7 a 1 Productiviti Un-- ztanding and Conseguenc-pz of a Mandate (2011) (0)
A stochastic risk assessment for Eastern Europe and Central Asian countries for earthquakes (2015) (0)

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