Jonah Rockoff

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Associate Professor

Finance and Economics

B.A., Amherst College, 1997; Ph.D., Harvard, 2004.

Year joined: 2004

E-mail: jr2331@columbia.edu


Journal articles

"Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools"
American Economic Review (2012)

Coauthor(s): Thomas Kane, Douglas Staiger, Eric Taylor

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"Worker Absence and Productivity: Evidence from Teaching"
Journal of Labor Economics (2012)

Coauthor(s): Mariesa Herrmann

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"Does Menstruation Explain Gender Gaps in Work Absenteeism?"
Journal of Human Resources (2012)

Coauthor(s): Mariesa Herrmann

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"Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One?"
Education Finance and Policy (2011)

Coauthor(s): Brian Jacob, Thomas Kane, Douglas Staiger

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"Stuck in the Middle: Impacts of Grade Configuration in Public Schools"
Journal of Public Economics (2010)

Coauthor(s): Benjamin Lockwood

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"Subjective and Objective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from New York City"
Labour Economics (2010)

Coauthor(s): Cecilia Speroni

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"Local Response to Fiscal Incentives in Heterogeneous Communities"
Journal of Urban Economics (2010)


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"Searching for Effective Teachers with Imperfect Information"
Journal of Economic Perspectives (2010)

Coauthor(s): Douglas Staiger

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"Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality"
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2010)

Coauthor(s): Lesley Turner

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"Subjective and Objective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness"
American Economic Review (2010)

Coauthor(s): Cecilia Speroni

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"Field Experiments in Class Size from the Early Twentieth Century"
Journal of Economic Perspectives (2009)


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"Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values from Megan's Laws"
American Economic Review (2008)

Coauthor(s): Leigh Linden

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"The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and Its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools"
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2008)

Coauthor(s): Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, James Wyckoff

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"What Does Certification Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City"
Economics of Education Review (2008)

Coauthor(s): Thomas Kane, Douglas Staiger

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"The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence from Panel Data"
American Economic Review (2004)


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Working papers

"Do Menstrual Problems Explain Gender Gaps in Absenteeism and Earnings? Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey"
Working Paper (2013)

Coauthor(s): Mariesa Herrmann

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"Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind: Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of NCLA"
NBER Working Paper No. 18988 (2013)

Coauthor(s): Elizabeth Davidson, Randall Reback, Heather Schwartz

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"School Segregation, Educational Attainment and Crime: Evidence from the End of Busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg"
Working Paper 18487 (2012)

Coauthor(s): Stephen Billings, David Deming

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"The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood"
Working Paper 17699 (2011)

Coauthor(s): Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman

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"Rules and Discretion in the Evaluation of Students and Schools: The Case of the New York Regents Examinations"
Working paper (2011)

Coauthor(s): Thomas Dee, Brian Jacob, Justin McCary

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"Under Pressure: Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools Under NCLB"
Working Paper (2011)

Coauthor(s): Randall Reback, Heather Schwartz

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"School Principals and School Performance"
CALDER Working Paper No. 38 (2009)

Coauthor(s): Damon Clark, Francisco Martorell

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"Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism, and the Earnings Gap: Comment"
Working Paper (2009)

Coauthor(s): Mariesa Herrmann

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"Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City"
Working Paper (2008)


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"Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?"
Working Paper (2008)

Coauthor(s): J. J. Prescott

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Magazine articles

"Moving Mountains in New York City: Joel Klein's Legacy by the Numbers"
Education Week (2010)

Coauthor(s): James Liebman

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