Publications
Books
Galimbertti, Percy. 2008. Teenage pregnancy and school dropouts in Texas: Effects on earnings, high school graduation and GED certification. 1. ed. Saarbr¸cken, Alemanha: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K., 2008. v. 1. 128.
Jargowsky, Paul A. and Mohamed El Komi. 2010. ìBefore or After the Bell: School Context and Neighborhood Effects on Student Achievement.î pp. 50-72 in Harriet Newburger, EugÈnie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, eds., Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Federal Reserve Board and Penn Institute for Urban Research.
Sadler, Philip M., Gerhard Sonnert, Robert H. Tai, and Kristin Klopfenstein, eds. 2010. AP: A Critical Examination of the Advanced Placement Program. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Articles
Alexander, Bobby C., Victor Garcia, Laura Gonzalez, Geoffrey Grimes, and Dan OíBrien. 2007. ìNew Challenges for Community Colleges: Hispanic Students, Immigrants, and the Transfer Process.î Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 6(2), 174-184.
Cullen, Julie B., and Steven G. Rivkin. 2003. ìThe role of special education in school choice.î In The Economics of School Choice. ed. Caroline M. Hoxby, 67-106. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Currie, Janet, Eric Hanushek, Emily Kahn, Matthew Neidell, and Steven Rivkin. 2009. "Does Pollution Increase School Absences?" Review of Economics and Statistics, 91(4), 682-694.
Flores, Stella M., and Toby J. Park. 2013. "Race, ethnicity, and college success: Examining the continued significance of the Minority-Serving Institution." Educational Researcher (conditionally accepted).
Hanushek, Eric A., and Steven G. Rivkin. 2012. "The Distribution of Teacher Quality and Implications for Policy." Annual Review of Economics, 4 September 2012, pp. 131-157.
Hanushek, Eric A. 2011. "The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality." Economics of Education Review, 30(3), pp. 466-479.
Hanushek, Eric A., and Steven G. Rivkin. 2010. "The Quality and Distribution of Teachers under the No Child Left Behind Act." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24(3), 133-150.
Hanushek, Eric A., and Steven G. Rivkin. 2010. "Generalizations about Using Value-Added Measures of Teacher Quality." American Economic Review 100(2), 267-71.
Hanushek, Eric A., John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin. 2009. "New evidence about Brown v. Board of Education: The complex effects of school racial composition of achievement." Journal of Labor Economics, 27(3), 349-384.
Hanushek, Eric A., and Steven G. Rivkin. 2009. "Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 28(3), 366ñ393.
Hanushek, Eric A. 2008. ìEducation Production Functions.î In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. eds. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hanushek, Eric A. 2007. ìIncentives for Efficiency and Equity in the School System.î Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 9 (Special Issue), 5ñ27.
Hanushek, Eric A., John F. Kain, Steven G. Rivkin and Gregory F. Branch. 2007. ìCharter school quality and parental decision making with school choice.î Journal of Public Economics, June 91(5), 823-48.
Hanushek, Eric A., Victor Lavy, and Kohtaro Hitomi. 2007. ìDo students care about school quality? Determinants of dropout behavior in developing countries.î Journal of Human Capital, 1(2), 69-105.
Hanushek, Eric A. 2005. ìThe Economics of School Quality.î German Economic Review 6(3), August 2005, 269-286.
Hanushek, Eric A., E. L. Glaeser, and J.M. Quigley. 2004. ìOpportunities, race, and urban location: The influence of John Kain.î Journal of Urban Economics, 56(1), 70-79.
Hanushek, Eric A., John F. Kain, and Steven G. Rivkin. 2004. ìThe revolving door.î Education Next, 4, no.1(Winter), 77-82.
Hanushek, Eric A., John F. Kain, and Steven G. Rivkin. 2004. ìWhy public schools lose teachers.î Journal of Human Resources, 39(2).
Hanushek, Eric A., and Steven G. Rivkin. 2004. "How to improve the supply of high quality teachers." Brookings Papers on Education Policy 2004. D. Ravitch. Washington, DC, Brookings Institution Press.
Hanushek, Eric A., John F. Kain, J. M. Markman, and Steven G. Rivkin. 2003. ìDoes peer ability affect student achievement?î Journal of Applied Econometrics, 18(5), 527-544.
Hanushek, Eric A., John F. Kain, and Steven G. Rivkin. 2003. ìDisruption versus Tiebout improvement: The costs and benefits of switching schools.î Journal of Public Economics, 88, 1721-1746.
Hanushek, Eric A., and Steven G. Rivkin. 2003. ìDoes public school competition affect teacher quality?î In The Economics of School Choice. ed. Caroline M. Hoxby, 23-47. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Hanushek, Eric A., John F. Kain, and Steven G. Rivkin. 2002. ìInferring program effects for special populations: Does special education raise achievement for students with disabilities?î Review of Economics and Statistics, 84(4), 584-599.
Jepsen, Christopher, and Steven G. Rivkin. 2009. ìClass Reduction and Student Achievement: The Potential Tradeoff between Teacher Quality and Class Size.î Journal of Human Resources 44(1):223-250.
Kain, John F. and K. Singleton. 1996. ìEquality of educational opportunity revisited.î New England Economic Review, May/June, 88-110.
Klopfenstein, Kristin. 2010. "Does the Advanced Placement Program Save Taxpayers Money? The Effect of AP Participation on Time to College Graduation." In AP: A Critical Examination of the Advanced Placement Program, eds. Philip M. Sadler, Gerhard Sonnert, Robert H. Tai, and Kristin Klopfenstein, 189-218. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
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Klopfenstein, Kristin, and M. Kathleen Thomas. 2010. "Advanced Placement Participation: Evaluating the Policies of States and Colleges." In AP: A Critical Examination of the Advanced Placement Program, eds. Philip M. Sadler, Gerhard Sonnert, Robert H. Tai, and Kristin Klopfenstein, 167-188. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Klopfenstein, Kristin, and M. Kathleen Thomas. 2009. ìThe Link Between Advanced Placement Experience and Early College Success.î The Southern Economic Journal, 75(3), 873ñ891.
Klopfenstein, Kristin. 2004. ìThe Advanced Placement expansion of the 1990's: How did traditionally underserved students fare?î Education Policy Analysis Archives, 12(68).
Klopfenstein, Kristin. 2004. ìAdvanced placement: do minorities have equal opportunity?î Economics of Education Review, 23(2), 115-131.
Klopfenstein, Kristin. 2004. ìBeyond test scores: The impact of black teacher role models on rigorous math-taking.î Contemporary Economic Policy, 23(3): 1-13.
Klopfenstein, Kristin. 2004. ìRecommendations for maintaining the quality of advanced placement programs.î American Secondary Education, 32(1), 39-48.
Lofstrom, Magnus J., and John H. Tyler. 2009. ìFinishing High School: Alternative Pathways and Dropout Recovery.î The Future of Children, 19(1), 79-105.
Lofstrom, Magnus J. 2007. ìWhy are Hispanic and African American Dropout Rates so High?î The Williams Review, 2007, 2, 91-121.
Lofstrom, Magnus J., and John H. Tyler. 2007. ìModeling the Signaling Value of the GED with an Application to an Exogenous Passing Standard Increase in Texas.î Research in Labor Economics, vol. 28, 305-352.
O'Brien, Daniel M., and A. M. Ware. 2002. ìImplementing research-based reading programs in the Fort Worth Independent School District.î Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 7(2), 167-195.
Rivkin, Steven G., Eric A. Hanushek, and John F. Kain. 2005. ìTeachers, schools and academic achievement.î Econometrica, 73(2), 417-458.
Thomas, M. Kathleen. 2004. ìSeeking every advantage: The phenomenon of taking both the SAT and ACT.î Economics of Education Review, 23(2), 203-208.
Thomas, M. Kathleen. 2004. ìThe SAT II: Majority/Minority test score gaps and what they could mean for college admissions.î Social Science Quarterly, 85(Special Issue: Social Science Examines Education).
Thomas, M. Kathleen. 2004. ìWhere college-bound students send their SAT scores: Does race matter?î Social Science Quarterly, 85 (5)(Special Issue: Social Science Examines Education).
Tyler, John H. 2005. ìThe General Educational Development (GED) Credential History, Current Research, and Directions for Policy and Practice.î Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, Vol. 5, London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: 45-84.
Tyler, John H. 2004. ìBasic Skills and the earnings of dropouts.î Economics of Education Review 23:3 (2004), 221-35.
Tyler, John H. 2004. ìDoes the GED improve Earnings? Estimates from a sample of both successful and unsuccessful GED candidates.î Industrial and Labor Relations Review 57:4, 579-98.
Tyler, John H., Richard Murnane, and John B. Willett. 2004. ìThe Devilís in the Details: Evidence from the GED on the Large Effects of Small Differences in High Stakes Exams.î Economics of Education Review 23:4, 336-49.
Tyler, John H. 2003. ìThe economic benefits of the GED: Lessons from recent research.î Review of Educational Research 73:3, 369-403.
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