Policy Briefs
2020. Applications for Financial Aid Lagging Among Low-Income Students
"Applications for Financial Aid Lagging Among Low-Income Students." 2020. Orlando Sanchez Zavala, Sabrina Solanki, Kevin Stange, Catherine Brown.
2019. Findings on Boston Prekindergarten Through Early Elementary School
"2019. Findings on Boston Prekindergarten Through Early Elementary School" 2019. Christina Weiland, Rebecca Unterman, Anna Shapiro, Hirokazu Yoshikawa.
2016. K-8 Choice in Michigan: Practices and Policies within Charter and Traditional Public Schools
"K-8 Choice in Michigan: Practices and Policies within Charter and Traditional Public Schools" 2016. Susan Dynarski, Brian Jacob, Mahima Mahadevan.
2016. Class Size in Michigan: Investigating the Risk of Being in Very Large Classes
"Class Size in Michigan: Investigating the Risk of Being in Very Large Classes." 2016. Brian Jacob, Rene Crespin, CJ Libassi, Susan Dynarski.
2016. The Gap within the Gap: Finding A Better Measure of Student Disadvantage
"The Gap within the Gap: Finding A Better Measure of Student Disadvantage." 2016. Katherine Michelmore, Susan M. Dynarski.
2016. The Power of Teacher Selection to Improve Education
"The Power of Teacher Selection to Improve Education." 2016. Brian Jacob.
2016. Are Expectations Alone Enough? Estimating the Effect of a Mandatory College-Prep Curriculum in Michigan
"Are Expectations Alone Enough? Estimating the Effect of a Mandatory College-Prep Curriculum in Michigan." 2016. Michigan Consortium for Educational Research brief. Susan M. Dynarski, Ken Frank, Brian Jacob, Barbara Schneider.
2015. Revisiting FAFSA Simplification: Expanding Access to the IRS Data Retrieval Tool
"Revisiting FAFSA Simplification: Expanding Access to the IRS Data Retrieval Tool" 2015. Susan M. Dynarski, Mark Wiederspan
2013. Loans for Educational Opportunity: Making Borrowing Work for Today’s Students
"Loans for Educational Opportunity: Making Borrowing Work for Today’s Students" 2013. Brookings. Susan M. Dynarski, Daniel Kreisman.
2012. The Michigan Context - High School Attainment and College Enrollment Across the State
"The Michigan Context: High School Attainment and College Enrollment Across the State." 2012. Michigan Consortium for Educational Research brief. Susan M. Dynarski, Ken Frank, Brian Jacob, Barbara Schneider.
2012. Impacts of the Michigan Merit Curriculum on Student Outcomes - Preliminary Findings from the First Cohort
"Impacts of the Michigan Merit Curriculum on Student Outcomes: Preliminary Findings from the First Cohort." 2012. Michigan Consortium for Educational Research brief. Susan M. Dynarski, Ken Frank, Brian Jacob, Barbara Schneider.
2012. The Michigan Merit Curriculum and Teacher Compositional Change
"The Michigan Merit Curriculum and Teacher Compositional Change." 2012. Michigan Consortium for Educational Research brief. Susan M. Dynarski, Ken Frank, Brian Jacob, Barbara Schneider.
Working Papers
2019
10-2019. When Do the Literacy Skills of Preschool Attenders and Non-Attenders Converge? Evidence from Boston.
Christina Weiland, Rebecca Unterman, Anna Shapiro
2018
01-2018. Estimating the Effects of a Large Network of Charter Schools Managed by a For-profit Operator
Susan Dynarski, Daniel Hubbard, Brian Jacob and Sylvia Robles
02-2018. Nudges, College Enrollment, and College Persistence: Evidence From a Statewide Experiment in Michigan
Joshua Hyman
03-2018. School Finance Reforms, Teachers' Unions, and the Allocation of School Resources
Eric Brunner, Joshua Hyman, Andrew Ju
12-2018. Closing the Gap: The Effect of a Targeted, Tuition-Free Promise on College Choices of High Achieving, Low-Income Students
Susan Dynarski, C.J. Labissi, Katherine Michelmore, & Stephanie Owen
2017
01-2017. Getting Student Financing Right in the US: Lessons from Australia and England
Nicholas Barr, Bruce Chapman, Lorraine Dearden and Susan Dynarski
02-2017. The Effect of Labor Market Information on Community College Students' Major Choice
Rachel Baker, Eric Bettinger, Brian Jacob, Ioana Marinescu
03-2017. Vocational and Career Tech Education in American High Schools: The Value of Depth Over Breadth.
Daniel Kreisman and Kevin Stange
2016
01-2016. Are Expectations Alone Enough? Estimating the Effect of a Mandatory College-Prep Curriculum in Michigan
Brian A. Jacob, Susan M. Dynarski, Kenneth Frank, and Barbara Schneider
02-2016. Tax Benefits for College Attendance
Susan Dynarski, Judith Scott-Clayton
03-2016. Teacher Applicant Hiring and Teacher Performance: Evidence from DC Public Schools
Brian Jacob, Jonah E. Rockoff, Eric S. Taylor, Benjamin Lindy, Rachel Rosen
04-2016. The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations
Thomas S. Dee, Willie Dobbie, Brian A. Jacob, Jonah Rockoff
05-2016. The Gap within the Gap: Using Longitudinal Data to Understand Income Differences in Student Achievement
Katherine Michelmore, Susan Dynarski
06-2016. The Measurement of Student Ability in Modern Assessment Systems
Brian Jacob, Jesse Rothstein
07-2016. Measuring Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education
Pieter De Vlieger, Brian Jacob, Kevin Stange
08-2016. Price Regulation, Price Discrimination, and Equality of Opportunity in Higher Education: Evidence from Texas
Rodney Andrews, Kevin Stange
09-2016. Does Money Matter in the Long Run? Effects of School Spending on Educational Attainment
Joshua Hyman
2015
01-2015. Labor Market Returns to Community College Awards: Evidence From Michigan
Peter Riley Bahr, Susan Dynarski, Brian Jacob, Daniel Kreisman, Alfredo Sosa, Mark Wiederspan
03-2015. A New Measure of College Quality to Study the Effects of College Sector and Peers on Degree Attainment
Johnathan Smith, Kevin Stange
04-2015. Investing in Schools: Capital Spending, Facility Conditions and Student Achievement
Paco Martorell, Kevin Stange, Isaac McFarlin
2014
01-2014. An Economist's Perspective on Student Loans in the United States
Susan Dynarski
02-2014. Marginal Pricing and Student Investment in Higher Education
Steven Hemelt, Kevin Stange
2013
01-2013. Simplifying Tax Incentives and Aid for College: Progress and Prospects
Susan Dynarski, Judith Scott-Clayton, Mark Wiederspan
02-2013. Financial Aid Policy: Lessons from Research
Susan Dynarki, Judith Scott-Clayton
03-2013. College as Country Club: Do Colleges Cater to Students' Preferences for Consumption?
Brian Jacob, Brian McCall, Kevin M. Stange
04-2013. Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion<
Susan M. Dynarski, Joshua M. Hyman, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
05-2013. Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston's Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice
Joshua D. Angrist, Sarah R. Cohodes, Susan M. Dynarski, Parag A. Pathak, Christopher R. Walters
06-2013. Differential Pricing in Undergraduate Education: Effects on Degree Production by Field
Kevin Stange
07-2013. The Missing Manual: Using National Student Clearinghouse Data to Track Postsecondary Outcomes
Susan M. Dynarski, Steven W. Hemelt, Joshua M. Hyman
2012
01-2012. Student Aid Simplification: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Susan M. Dynarski, Mark Wiederspan
2011
01-2011. New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply
Mimi Engel, Brian Jacob
02-2011. Manipulation in the Grading of New York’s Regents Examinations
Thomas Dee, Brian Jacob, Justin McCray
03-2011. Organizing Schools to Improve Student Achievement: Start Times, Grade Configurations, and Teacher Assignments
Brian Jacob, Jonah Rockoff
04-2011. The Consumption Value of Postsecondary Education
Brian Jacob, Brian McCall, Kevin Stange
05-2011. Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion
Martha Bailey, Sue Dynarski
2010 and prior years
01-2010. Rational Ignorance in Education: A Field Experiment in Student Plagiarism
Thomas Dee, Brian Jacob
02-2010. Educational Expectations and Attainment
Brian Jacob, Tamara Wilder
03-2010. Who Benefits From KIPP?
Joshua Angrist, Susan Dynarski, Thomas Kane, Parag Pathak, Christopher Walters