The Barnard/Columbia NCLB Data website is up! It provides national school-level data from the first two years of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Note: New working papers listed below are in boldface.

Public Finance

  • "Fiscal Spillovers between Local Governments: Keeping up with the Joneses' School District", [July 2011 draft]
  • "Local Tax Price Discrimination in an Aging Society", [Feb. 2011 draft]
  • "Mobility, Housing Markets, and Schools: Estimating the Effects of Interdistrict Choice," Journal of Public Economics 96, August 2012 [PDF]
    • "House Prices and the Provision of Public Services: Capitalization under School Choice Programs," Journal of Urban Economics 57(2), (March 2005) [PDF]
     

School Accountability

  • "Under Pressure: Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools under NCLB", (with Jonah Rockoff & Heather Schwartz). [Feb. 2013 draft]
  • "Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind: Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of NCLB", (with Elizabeth Davidson, Jonah Rockoff, & Heather Schwartz). [April 2013 draft]
  • "Teaching to the Rating: School Accountability and the Distribution of Student Achievement," Journal of Public Economics , June 2008 [PDF] [Corrigendum for Table 4]
  • "Tinkering Towards Accolades: School Gaming under a Performance Accountability System" (joint with Julie Cullen). Advances in Applied Microeconomics 14, (2006) [PDF]
 

School-based Mental Health Services

  • "Schools' Mental Health Services and Young Children's Emotions, Behavior, and Learning," forthcoming, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management [PDF]
  • "Non-Instructional Spending Improves Non-Cognitive Outcomes: Discontinuity Evidence from a Unique School Counselor Financing System," Education Finance & Policy, Spring 2010 [PDF]
 

School Choice and Student Sorting

  • "True for Your School? How Changing Reputations Alter Demand for Selective U.S. Colleges", (joint with Molly Alter) November 2012 [PDF]
  • "Fiscal Impacts of Charter Schools: Lessons for New York", (joint with Bob Bifulco) September 2012 [PDF]
  • "Jockeying for Position: High School Student Mobility and Texas' Top Ten Percent Rule" (joint with Julie Cullen and Mark Long) [Sept. 2011 draft] forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economics  
  • "Demand (and Supply) in an Inter-district Public School Choice Program," Economics of Education Review, August 2008 [PDF]

    • Teacher Labor Markets

    • "The Impact of College Course Offerings on the Supply of Academically Talented Public School Teachers."Journal of Econometrics 121, (July, 2004), pp. 377-404.[abstract] [PDF]
    • "Entry Costs and the Supply of Public School Teachers." Education Finance & Policy, (Spring 2006) [abstract] [PDF]