Douglas Staiger

Dartmouth College - Department of Economics

Hanover, NH 03755

United States

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

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Scholarly Papers (41)

Parental Preferences and School Competition: Evidence from a Public School Choice Program

Yale Economic Applications and Policy Discussion Paper No. 10
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 22 Feb 2006
Justine S. Hastings, Thomas J. Kane and Douglas Staiger
Brown University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Parental Preferences and School Competition: Evidence from a Public School Choice Program

NBER Working Paper No. w11805
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 22 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2022
Justine S. Hastings, Thomas J. Kane and Douglas Staiger
Brown University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 72 (555,455)
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What Does Certification Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City

NBER Working Paper No. w12155
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 24 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2022
Thomas J. Kane, Jonah E. Rockoff and Douglas Staiger
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 192 (268,458)
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Instrumental Variables Regression with Weak Instruments

NBER Working Paper No. t0151
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 15 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2023
Douglas Staiger and James H. Stock
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Harvard University - Department of Economics
Downloads 161 (312,639)
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Estimating Teacher Impacts on Student Achievement: An Experimental Evaluation

NBER Working Paper No. w14607
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 29 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Thomas J. Kane and Douglas Staiger
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 160 (314,332)
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Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One?

NBER Working Paper No. w14485
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 17 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2022
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 124 (384,469)
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The Quality of Health Care Providers

NBER Working Paper No. w7327
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 13 Mar 2000 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2022
Mark B. McClellan and Douglas Staiger
Brookings Institution and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 123 (386,774)
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Comparing Hospital Quality at For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals

NBER Working Paper No. w7324
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 13 Mar 2000 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2022
Mark B. McClellan and Douglas Staiger
Brookings Institution and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 121 (391,545)
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Improving School Accountability Measures

NBER Working Paper No. w8156
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Mar 2001 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2022
Thomas J. Kane and Douglas Staiger
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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The Political Economy of School Choice: Randomized School Admissions and Voter Participation

Yale Economic Applications and Policy Discussion Paper No. 11
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Feb 2006
Brown University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research, Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 24 Aug 2011
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance, Dartmouth College - Department of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Stanford University
Downloads 60 (617,923)
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Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools

NBER Working Paper No. w16240
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 02 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 18 May 2023
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance, Dartmouth College - Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research and Harvard University - Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care

NBER Working Paper No. w14865
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 13 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2022
Jonathan S. Skinner and Douglas Staiger
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 101 (445,986)
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Roe V. Wade and American Fertility

NBER Working Paper No. w5615
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2022
Wellesley College, Dartmouth College - Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research and Williams College
Downloads 96 (461,192)
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Technology Adoption from Hybrid Corn to Beta Blockers

NBER Working Paper No. w11251
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 May 2005 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2022
Jonathan S. Skinner and Douglas Staiger
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 93 (470,817)
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Prices, Wages and the U.S. NAIRU in the 1990s

NBER Working Paper No. w8320
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 07 Jun 2001 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2022
Douglas Staiger, James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Downloads 91 (477,426)
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Is There Monopsony in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w7258
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2022
Douglas Staiger, Joanne Spetz and Ciaran S. Phibbs
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics, University of California, San Francisco - S/N Community Health Systems and Stanford University - School of Medicine
Downloads 87 (490,773)
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Abortion as Insurance

NBER Working Paper No. w8813
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Feb 2002 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2022
Phillip B. Levine and Douglas Staiger
Wellesley College and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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School Quality, Neighborhoods and Housing Prices: The Impacts of School Desegregation

NBER Working Paper No. w11347
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 20 Jun 2005 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2023
Thomas J. Kane, Douglas Staiger and Stephanie Riegg
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research, Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics
Downloads 78 (523,913)
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Estimating Returns to Schooling When Schooling is Misreported

NBER Working Paper No. w7235
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 02 Nov 1999 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2022
Thomas J. Kane, Cecilia E. Rouse and Douglas Staiger
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research, Princeton University - Industrial Relations Section and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 78 (523,913)
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Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Public School Choice Lottery

NBER Working Paper No. w12145
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2022
Justine S. Hastings, Thomas J. Kane and Douglas Staiger
Brown University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 72 (548,322)
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Searching for Effective Teachers with Imperfect Information

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 97-118, 2010
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 27 Oct 2011
Jonah E. Rockoff and Douglas Staiger
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 67 (569,899)
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School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment

NBER Working Paper No. w17438
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 21 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2023
Academic Dean, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Brown University, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Brown University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 67 (569,899)
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Abortion and Selection

NBER Working Paper No. w12150
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 14 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2022
Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Wellesley College and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 66 (574,312)
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National Board Certification and Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from a Random Assignment Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w14608
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 29 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2022
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Policy Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 61 (597,583)

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Testing a Roy Model with Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks

NBER Working Paper No. w10811
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 18 Oct 2004 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2022
Amitabh Chandra and Douglas Staiger
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 61 (597,583)
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How Precise are Estimates of the Natural Rate of Unemployment?

NBER Working Paper No. w5477
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 26 Jun 1998 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2022
Douglas Staiger, James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
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Abortion Legalization and Child Living Circumstances: Who is the "Marginal Child?"

NBER Working Paper No. w6034
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2022
Jonathan Gruber, Phillip B. Levine and Douglas Staiger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Wellesley College and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 60 (602,412)
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Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

NBER Working Paper No. w24035
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 20 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2023
Amitabh Chandra and Douglas Staiger
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 54 (633,478)
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Fiscal Shenanigans, Targeted Federal Health Care Funds, and Patient Mortality

NBER Working Paper No. w10440
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 04 May 2004 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2022
Katherine Baicker and Douglas Staiger
Harvard University - Department of Health Policy & Management and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 52 (644,559)
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The Consequences of Remote and Hybrid Instruction During the Pandemic

NBER Working Paper No. w30010
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 May 2022 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2023
University of Washington, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research, NWEA, NWEA, Harvard University - Center for Education Policy Research and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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The Effect of Randomized School Admissions on Voter Participation

NBER Working Paper No. w11794
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 22 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2022
Brown University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research, Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Downloads 36 (746,049)
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An Evaluation of Bias in Three Measures of Teacher Quality: Value-Added, Classroom Observations, and Student Surveys

NBER Working Paper No. w23478
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 05 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2023
Harvard University, Harvard University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Identifying Provider Prejudice in Healthcare

NBER Working Paper No. w16382
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 27 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2023
Amitabh Chandra and Douglas Staiger
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 31 (783,687)
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Knowledge, Tests, and Fadeout in Educational Interventions

NBER Working Paper No. w18038
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 May 2012 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2023
Elizabeth Cascio and Douglas Staiger
Department of Economics, Dartmouth College and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Validating Teacher Effect Estimates Using Changes in Teacher Assignments in Los Angeles

NBER Working Paper No. w20657
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 10 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2022
Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Thomas J. Kane and Douglas Staiger
Harvard University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 21 (869,385)
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Have Income-Based Achievement Gaps Widened or Narrowed?

NBER Working Paper No. w27714
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 25 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2023
Harvard University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research, Harvard University - Harvard Graduate School of Education, Brown University and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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What Do Changes in State Test Scores Imply for Later Life Outcomes?

NBER Working Paper No. w30701
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 06 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2022
Elena Doty, Thomas J. Kane, Tyler Patterson and Douglas Staiger
Independent Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research, Harvard University - Center for Education Policy Research and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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School District Reform in Newark: Within- and Between-School Changes in Achievement Growth

NBER Working Paper No. w23922
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 16 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 14 May 2023
Harvard University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research, Harvard University - Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Overconfidence and Technology Adoption in Health Care

NBER Working Paper No. w30345
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 15 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2023
Diego Comin, Jonathan S. Skinner and Douglas Staiger
Dartmouth College, Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Teacher Effects and Teacher-Related Policies

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 6, pp. 801-825, 2014
Posted: 08 Aug 2014
C. Kirabo Jackson, Jonah E. Rockoff and Douglas Staiger
Northwestern University, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics

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School Quality, Neighborhoods, and Housing Prices

American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 8, Issue 2, pp. 183-212, 2006
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Thomas J. Kane, Stephanie Riegg and Douglas Staiger
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Public Policy & Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics

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Productivity Spillovers in Health Care: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 115, pp. 103-140, February 2007
Posted: 07 Feb 2007
Amitabh Chandra and Douglas Staiger
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics

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