Working Papers
Alexander, Bobby C., Victor Garcia, Laura Gonzalez, Geoffrey Grimes, and Daniel M. O'Brien. 2003. "New challenges for community colleges: Latino students, immigration and the transfer process."
Berg, Nathan. 2003. "Race-switching in Texas: Empirical evidence of the constructionist hypothesis?"
Berg, Nathan. In Progress. "Affirmative action, race-based admissions criteria, and other institutional determinants of racial self-identification: Evidence from Texas."
Berg, Nathan. In Progress. "Inconsistent racial measures: A problem for social science research?"
Berg, Nathan. In Progress. "Perceptions of racial composition in Texas schools: Systematic biases uncovered."
Bucks, Brian. 2004. "Affirmative access versus affirmative action: How have Texas' race-blind policies affected college outcomes?"
Bucks, Brian. 2003. "The effects of Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan on college choice."
Chastain, Teresa. 2004. "Blurring the lines: When high schools and community colleges share curriculum."
Chastain, Teresa, and Daniel M. O'Brien. 2003. "Preparing at-risk children for school success."
Hanushek, Eric A., John F. Kain, Daniel M. O'Brien and Steven G. Rivkin. 2005. "The market for teacher quality."
Hanushek, Eric A. 2000. "Evidence, politics, and the class size debate."
Hanushek, Eric A., John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin. 2000. "How much does school integration affect student achievement?"
Hanushek, Eric A., John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin. 1999. "The cost of switching schools."
Hanushek, Eric A., John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin. 1999. "Do higher salaries buy better teachers?"
Hoxby, Caroline M. 2000. "Peer effects in the classroom: Learning from gender variation."
Jargowsky, Paul A., Isaac McFarlin, and Vera Holovchenko. 2005. “Community College: Help or Hindrance to Senior College Graduation.”
Jargowsky, Paul A. and Vera Holovchenko (2004). "The middle path: The community college experience in Texas."
Kain, John F., Daniel M. O'Brien, and Paul A. Jargowsky. 2005. "Hopwood and the Top 10 Percent Law: How they have affected the college enrollment decision of Texas high school graduates."
Kain, John F. 2001. "Description of the UTD Texas Schools Project."
Kain, John F. 2001. "The UTD Texas Schools Microdata Panel (TSMP): Its history, use and ways to improve state collection of public school data."
Kain, John F., and Daniel M. O'Brien. 2000. "Black suburbanization in Texas metropolitan areas and its impact on student achievement."
Kain, John F., and Daniel M. O'Brien. 2000. "High school outcomes and college decision of Texas public school students."
Kain, John F., and Daniel M. O'Brien. 1999. "A longitudinal assessment of reading achievement: Evidence from the UTD Texas Schools Project."
Kain, John F., and Daniel M. O'Brien. 1999. "Minority suburbanization in Texas metropolitan areas and its impact on student achievement."
Kain, John F. 1998. "Ethnic and racial differences in graduation, dropout rates and course completions for student attend Texas public high schools."
Kain, John F. 1998. "The impact of individual teachers and peers on individual student achievement."
Kain, John F. 1998. "Using TEA annual data to develop a multi-year panel data base: Lessons learned and suggested additions and improvement to TEA's data collection."
Kain, John F., and Daniel M. O'Brien. 1998. "Has moving to the suburbs increased African American educational opportunities?"
McFarlin, Isaac Jr., and Paco Martorell. 2007. "Help or Hindrance? The Effects of College Remediation on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes."
McFarlin, Isaac, Paul A. Jargowsky, and Vera Holovchenko. 2005. “Who attends Community Colleges in Texas? And Why?”
Lofstrum, Magnus, and John Tyler. 2004. "Measuring the returns to the GED: Using an exogenous change in GED passing standards as a natural experiment."
Martorell, Francisco. 2004. "Do high school graduation exams matter? A regression discontinuity approach."
O'Brien, Daniel M., and Teresa D. Nelson. 2004. "Strengthening college preparation and access through concurrent enrollment in high school and community college."
O'Brien, Daniel M. 2002. "The junior high effect is real: School grade spans, structural mobility and student outcomes."
O'Brien, Daniel M., and James C. Murdoch. 2000. "School choice in a large Texas school district."
O'Brien, Daniel M. 1999. "Family and school effects on the cognitive growth of minority and disadvantaged elementary school students."
O'Brien, Daniel M., and Sharon Leigh Wrobel. 1998. "Assessment of bilingual education programs in a large Texas schools district."
Vijverberg, Wim. 2004. "Early Human Capital Skills and Labor Market Entry."
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