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Format: 2023

General Audience Articles

The Economic Cost of the Pandemic: State by State. Hoover Education Success Initiative, 2023.
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The Basic Skills Gap. (with Ludger Woessmann). Finance & Development, 59(2), 2022, pp. 50-53.
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The Economic Impacts of Learning Losses. (with Ludger Woessmann). Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2020.
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The Achievement Gap Fails to Close: Half Century of testing shows persistent divide between haves and have-nots. (with Paul E. Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, and Ludger Woessmann). Education Next, 19(3), Summer 2019, pp. 8-17.
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Achievement Gap. In Denis C. Phillips (ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy, Los Angeles: SAGE Reference, 2014, pp, 4-7.
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How well do we understand achievement gaps?. Focus, 27(2), Winter 2010, pp. 5-12.
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Where STEM graduates stem from: The intergenerational transmission of comparative skill advantages. (with Babs Jacobs, Guido Schwerdt, Rolf van der Velden, Stan Vermeulen, and Simon Wiederhold). VoxEU, June 3, 2023.
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A simple and complete solution to the learning loss problem. Policy Brief, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University, November 2022.
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Notes on Trends in the U.S. Income-Achievement Gap. (with Jacob Light, Paul E. Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, and Ludger Woessmann). June 2022.
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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills. (with Babs Jacobs, Guido Schwerdt, Rolf van der Velden, Stan Vermeulen, and Simon Wiederhold). VoxEU, February 22, 2022.
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Can greater access to education be inequitable?. (with Chirantan Chatterjee and Shreekanth Mahendiran). Ideas for India, August 10, 2020.
Unintended consequences to education for all: India’s Right to Education Act. (with Chirantan Chatterjee and Shreekanth Mahendiran). VoxEU, July 23, 2020.
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US achievement gaps hold steady in the face of substantial policy initiatives. (with Paul E. Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, and Ludger Woessmann). VoxEU, April 15, 2015.
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The Economic Relevance of Early Childhood Development. In Jörg F. Maas, Simone C. Ehmig, Carolin Seelmann (Ed.), Prepare for Life! Raising Awareness for Early Literacy Education, Stiftung Lesen, Mainz, DE, 2014, pp. 249-253.
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Working Papers

Incidence and Outcomes of School Finance Litigation: 1968-2021. (with Matthew Joyce-Wirtz). NBER Working Paper No. 31271, National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2023.
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Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages. (with Babs Jacobs, Guido Schwerdt, Rolf van der Velden, Stan Vermeulen, and Simon Wiederhold). NBER Working Paper No. 31186, National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2023.
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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement. (with Jin Luo, Andrew Morgan, Minh Nguyen, Ben Ost, and Steven G. Rivkin, Ayman Shakeel). NBER Working Paper No. 31073, National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2023.
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills: An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes. (with Babs Jacobs, Guido Schwerdt, Rolf van der Velden, Stan Vermeulen, and Simon Wiederhold). NBER Working Paper No. 29450, National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2021.
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The Economic Impacts of Learning Losses. (with Ludger Woessmann). OECD Education Working Paper No. 225, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, September 2020.
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Can Greater Access to Education Be Inequitable? New Evidence from India’s Right to Education Act. (with Chirantan Chatterjee and Shreekanth Mahendiran). NBER Working Paper No. 27377, National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2020.

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