Working Papers

Working Papers

• College Access & Success

  Paper	Author(s)	Date
  West Virginia College Success Nudges	Benjamin Castleman Katharine Meyer	10/2017
  Online Course Enrollment at Public Open Admissions Institutions	Benjamin Skinner	10/2017
  An Evaluation of a Parent Intervention to Facilitate Student Success	Denise Deutschlander	10/2017
  Aid and Encouragement	Andrew Barr Sarah Turner	10/2017
  Intergenerational Benefits and Military Service	Benjamin Castleman Francis Murphy William Skimmyhorn	10/2017
  Peer Effects and Education Investments	Francis Murphy	05/2017
  Nudging at a National Scale	Kelli Bird Benjamin Castleman Joshua Goodman Cait Lamberton	03/2017
  Prompting Choice Among Student Borrowers	Andrew Barr Kelli Bird Benjamin Castleman	01/2017
  Simplifying Financial Aid	Kelly Rosinger	11/2016
  States Implementation Responses to NCLB	Vivian Wong Coady Wing David Martin	06/2016
  Parental Influences on Postsecondary Decision-Making	Benjamin Castleman Lindsay Page	05/2016
  Financial Aid Renewal	Kelli Bird Benjamin Castleman	04/2015
  Freshman Year Financial Aid Nudges	Benjamin Castleman Lindsay Page	12/2014
  Text Messaging Guide to College	Benjamin Castleman Laura Owen Lindsay Page Bryan Stephany	09/2014
  College Counseling and Enrollment Choices	Benjamin Castleman Joshua Goodman	07/2014
  GI Bill & College Enrollment	Andrew Barr	05/2014
  Foreign Student Demand	Kelli Bird Sarah Turner	04/2014
  The Impact of Partial vs. Full Merit Scholarships on College Entry and Success	Benjamin Castleman	02/2014
  The Effects of Nudges on Students' Effort and Performance--Lessons from a MOOC	Ignacio Martinez	02/2014
  Summer Nudging: Can Text Messages and Peer Mentors Increase College Going Among Low-Income HS Grads?	Benjamin Castleman Lindsay Page	01/2014
  Providing Information, Avoiding Distortions: Challenges for the Postsecondary Information Rating System	Sarah Turner	01/2014
  Prompts, Personalization, And Pay-Offs	Benjamin Castleman	09/2013
  The Forgotten Summer	Benjamin Castleman Lindsay Page Korynn Schooley	09/2013
  Assessing the Impact of North Carolina's Early College High Schools on College Preparedness	Luke Miller Matthew Corritore	12/2012

• Early Childhood Education

  Paper	Author(s)	Date
  Within-Year Teacher Turnover in Head Start and Children’s School Readiness	Anna Markowitz	05/2019
  How safe are early childhood education programs? New evidence from the universe of all licensed centers in North Carolina	Justin Doromal Daphna Bassok Vivian Wong	08/2018
  The Effects of Full-day Pre-kindergarten: Experimental Evidence of Impacts on Children’s School Readiness	Allison Atteberry Daphna Bassok Vivian Wong	07/2018
  Preschool and Children’s Outcomes in Elementary School: Have Patterns Changed Nationwide Between 1998 and 2010?	Daphna Bassok Chloe Gibbs Scott Latham	05/2018
  Measuring the Quality of Teacher–Child Interactions at Scale: Comparing Research- Based and State Observation Approaches	Virginia Vitiello Daphna Bassok Bridget Hamre Daniel Player Amanda Williford	04/2018
  Are there differences in parents’ preferences and search processes across preschool types? Evidence from Louisiana	Daphna Bassok Preston Magouirk Anna Markowitz Daniel Player	04/2018
  Intergenerational Effects of an Anti-Poverty Program in Early Childhood	Andrew Barr Chloe Gibbs	10/2017
  Effects of Accountability Incentives	Daphna Bassok Thomas Dee Scott Latham	09/2017
  Effects of Preschool on Retention	Luke Miller Daphna Bassok	09/2017
  Universal PreK and the Child Care Sector	Daphna Bassok Luke Miller Eva Galdo	05/2016
  Raising Teacher Education Levels in Head Start	Daphna Bassok	02/2016
  The Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce from 1990 through 2010	Daphna Bassok Maria Fitzpatrick Susanna Loeb Agustina Paglayan	02/2016
  Does State Preschool Crowd-out Private Provision?	Daphna Bassok Maria Fitzpatrick Susanna Loeb	02/2016
  Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?	Daphna Bassok Scott Latham Anna Rorem	02/2016
  Kids Today	Daphna Bassok Scott Latham	02/2016
  Inequality in Preschool Quality	Daphna Bassok Eva Galdo	01/2016
  Sector Quality Differences in Early Education	Daphna Bassok Maria Fitzpatrick Erica Greenberg Susanna Loeb	07/2015
  Gaps in Early Experiences	Daphna Bassok RaeHyuck Lee Sean Reardon Jane Waldfogel	07/2015
  Full Day Kindergarten Impact	Chloe Gibbs	09/2014
  The Extent, Patterns, and Implications of Kindergarten "Redshirting"	Daphna Bassok Sean Reardon	10/2012

• Methodology & Measurement

  Paper	Author(s)	Date
  Semantic Similarity to Assess Adherence and Replicability	Kylie Anglin Vivian Wong Arielle Boguslav	04/2021
  Design-Based Approaches to Systematic Conceptual Replication Studies	Vivian Wong Peter Steiner Kylie Anglin	10/2020
  Edtech in Developing Countries	Dan Rodriguez-Segura	09/2020
  Gather-Narrow-Extract: A Framework for Studying Local Policy Variation Using Web-Scraping and Natural Language Processing	Kylie Anglin	09/2019
  The Impact of Intensifying State Accountability Pressures on Student Achievement under No Child Left Behind	Vivian Wong Coady Wing David Martin Anandita Krishnamachari	07/2018
  States Implementation Responses to NCLB	Vivian Wong Coady Wing David Martin	06/2016
  Replication Designs for Causal Inference	Vivian Wong Peter Steiner	04/2018
  Design of WIthin-Study Comparisons	Vivian Wong Peter Steiner	04/2016
  Covariate Performance in Observational Studies	Vivian Wong Jeffrey Valentine Kate Miller-Bains	04/2016
  Analysis of Within-Study Comparisons	Peter Steiner Vivian Wong	04/2016
  School Comparisons in Observational Designs	Kelly Hallberg Vivian Wong Thomas Cook	04/2016
  Minimum Wage and School Decisions	Alex Smith	09/2014
  MOOC Procrastination	Ignacio Martinez	06/2014
  Summer Learning Loss	Andrew McEachin Allison Atteberry	05/2014
  The Effects of Nudges on Students' Effort and Performance--Lessons from a MOOC	Ignacio Martinez	12/2013

• Rural Schools

  Paper	Author(s)	Date
  College Attendance Patterns of Rural Youth	Daniel Player	08/2015
  Understanding Rural Teacher Retention and the Role of Community Amenities	Luke Miller	10/2012

• School Leadership

  Paper	Author(s)	Date
  You Can Only Lead if Someone Follows: The Role of Teachers’ Assessment of Principal Quality in Principal Turnover	Aliza Husain Luke Miller	04/2019
  Do Male Workers Prefer Male Leaders? An Analysis of Principals’ Effects on Teacher Retention	Aliza Husain David Matsa Amalia Miller	11/2018
  Teacher Tenure Reform in NYC	Susanna Loeb Luke Miller James Wyckoff	09/2014
  Learning that Lasts, Unpacking Variation in Teachers' Effects on Students' Long-Term	Benjamin Master Susanna Loeb James Wyckoff	02/2014
  The Waive of the Future: School Accountability in the Waiver Era	Morgan Polikoff Andrew McEachin Stephani Wrabel Matthew Duque	07/2013
  School Improvement in Ohio and Missouri: An Evaluation of the School Turnaround Specialist Program	Daniel Player Veronica Katz	06/2013

• Teacher Quality

  Paper	Author(s)	Date
  Supporting Students at Any Cost? Examining the Dynamics of Teacher Out-of-Pocket Spending, Student Demographics, and Teacher Autonomy	Brian Kim	04/2021
  Examining the role of personal factors in the development of self-efficacy beliefs among pre-service teachers	Anandita Krishnamachari	09/2020
  Policy Implementation, Principal Agency, and Strategic Action: Improving Teaching Effectiveness in New York City Middle Schools	Julie Cohen Susanna Loeb Luke Miller James Wyckoff	01/2019
  DCPS Teacher Turnover	Melinda Adnot Thomas Dee Veronica Katz James Wyckoff	05/2016
  Teacher Tenure Reform in NYC	Susanna Loeb Luke Miller James Wyckoff	09/2014
  Learning that Lasts, Unpacking Variation in Teachers' Effects on Students' Long-Term	Benjamin Master Susanna Loeb James Wyckoff	02/2014
  Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance	Thomas Dee James Wyckoff	10/2013
  Do First Impressions Matter? Improvement in Early Career Teacher Effectiveness	Allison Atteberry Susanna Loeb James Wyckoff	06/2013

• School Accountability

  Paper	Author(s)	Date
  The Fifth Indicator	Luke Miller Katharine Sadowski Jennifer Piver-Renna	12/2019