Brian A. Jacob

Where the Boys Aren't: Noncognitive Skills, Returns to School, and the Gender Gap in Higher Education

Year: 2002
Journal: Economics of Education Review
Authors: Brian A. Jacob

Accountability Incentives and Behavior: The Impact of High-Stakes Testing in the Chicago Public Schools

Year: 2002
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Brian A. Jacob

The Impact of Teacher Training on Student Achievement: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from School Reform Efforts in Chicago

Year: 2002
Journal: Journal of Human Resources
Authors: Brian A. Jacob; Lars Lefgren

Remedial Education and Student Achievement: A Regression-Discontinuity Analysis

Year: 2002
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Brian A. Jacob; Lars Lefgren

Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating

Year: 2003
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Brian A. Jacob; Steven D. Levitt

Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory

Year: 2003
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Brian A. Jacob; Steven D. Levitt

Public Housing, Housing Vouchers, and Student Achievement: Evidence from Public Housing Demolitions in Chicago

Year: 2003
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Brian A. Jacob

Are Idle Hands the Devil's Workshop? Incapacitation, Concentration, and Juvenile Crime

Year: 2003
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Brian A. Jacob; Lars Lefgren

The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries

Year: 2003
Journal: Econometrica
Authors: Julie Berry Cullen; Brian A. Jacob; Steven Levitt

Principals as Agents: Subjective Performance Measurement in Education

Year: 2005
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Brian A. Jacob; Lars Lefgren

What Do Parents Value in Education? An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers

Year: 2005
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Brian A. Jacob; Lars Lefgren

Do High School Exit Exams Influence Educational Attainment or Labor Market Performance?

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Thomas S. Dee; Brian A. Jacob

Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools: Gaining Ground Evidence from Randomized Lotteries

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Julie Berry Cullen; Brian A. Jacob

Test-Based Accountability and Student Achievement: An Investigation of Differential Performance on NAEP and State Assessments

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Brian A. Jacob

Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One?

Year: 2008
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jonah E. Rockoff; Brian A. Jacob; Thomas J. Kane; Douglas O. Staiger

The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning Gains

Year: 2008
Journal: Journal of Human Resources
Authors: Brian A. Jacob; Lars Lefgren; David Sims

The Effect of Gun Shows on Gun-Related Deaths: Evidence from California and Texas

Year: 2008
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Mark Duggan; Randi Hjalmarsson; Brian A. Jacob

The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery

Year: 2008
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Brian A. Jacob; Jens Ludwig

Rational Ignorance in Education: A Field Experiment in Student Plagiarism

Year: 2010
Journal: Journal of Human Resources
Authors: Thomas S. Dee; Brian A. Jacob

Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers?

Year: 2010
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Brian A. Jacob

Educational Expectations and Attainment

Year: 2010
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Brian A. Jacob; Tamara Wilder

The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: Evidence from Public Schooling

Year: 2010
Journal: Journal of Labor Economics
Authors: Brian A. Jacob

The Effects of Housing and Neighborhood Conditions on Child Mortality

Year: 2011
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Brian A. Jacob; Jens Ludwig; Douglas L. Miller

New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply

Year: 2011
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Mimi Engel; Brian A. Jacob

The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations

Year: 2016
Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Authors: Thomas S. Dee; Will Dobbie; Brian A. Jacob; Jonah Rockoff

Why Choose Career Technical Education? Disentangling Student Preferences from Program Availability

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Brian A. Jacob; Michael D. Ricks