Steven G. Rivkin

Amherst College - Department of Economics

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1.

The Market for Teacher Quality

NBER Working Paper No. w11154
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 22 Mar 2005 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2022
Eric A. Hanushek, John F. Kain, Daniel M. O'Brien and Steven G. Rivkin
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, University of Texas at Dallas - Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society, University of Texas at Dallas - Department of Economics & Finance and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement

NBER Working Paper No. w6691
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 01 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2022
Eric A. Hanushek, John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, University of Texas at Dallas - Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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Why Public Schools Lose Teachers

NBER Working Paper No. w8599
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 17 Nov 2001 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2023
Eric A. Hanushek, John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, University of Texas at Dallas - Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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Does Special Education Raise Academic Achievement for Students with Disabilities?

NBER Working Paper No. w6690
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 12 Nov 1998 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2022
Eric A. Hanushek, John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, University of Texas at Dallas - Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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Do Higher Salaries Buy Better Teachers?

NBER Working Paper No. w7082
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 25 Apr 1999 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2022
Eric A. Hanushek, John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, University of Texas at Dallas - Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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New Evidence About Brown V. Board of Education: The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement

NBER Working Paper No. w8741
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 Jan 2002 Last Revised: 22 May 2022
Eric A. Hanushek, John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, University of Texas at Dallas - Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap

NBER Working Paper No. w12651
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 20 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2022
Eric A. Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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Econometric Methods for Research in Education

NBER Working Paper No. w16003
Number of pages: 137 Posted: 04 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2023
Costas Meghir and Steven G. Rivkin
Yale University and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity: the Case of School Principals

NBER Working Paper No. w17803
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 03 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2023
Gregory Branch, Gregory F. Branch, Eric A. Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Texas at Dallas - Texas Schools Project (TSP), Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement?

NBER Working Paper No. w8502
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 Sep 2001 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2022
Eric A. Hanushek, John F. Kain, Jacob M. Markman and Steven G. Rivkin
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, University of Texas at Dallas - Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society, Amherst College and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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What is the Tradeoff between Smaller Classes and Teacher Quality?

NBER Working Paper No. w9205
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Sep 2002 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2022
Christopher Jepsen and Steven G. Rivkin
University College Dublin (UCD) - School of Economics and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School Resources

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Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School Resources

NBER Working Paper No. w5548
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 03 Jul 1996 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2022
Eric A. Hanushek, Steven G. Rivkin and Lori L. Taylor
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Amherst College - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School Resources

REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, Vol. 78, No. 4, November 1996
Posted: 08 Oct 1996
Eric A. Hanushek, Steven G. Rivkin and Lori L. Taylor
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Amherst College - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Charter School Quality and Parental Decision Making with School Choice

NBER Working Paper No. w11252
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 May 2005 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2022
Eric A. Hanushek, John F. Kain, Steven G. Rivkin and Gregory F. Branch
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, University of Texas at Dallas - Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society, Amherst College - Department of Economics and University of Texas at Dallas - Texas Schools Project (TSP)
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Understanding the 20th Century Growth in U.S. School Spending

NBER Working Paper No. w5547
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Jun 1996 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2022
Eric A. Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap

NBER Working Paper No. w14211
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2022
Eric A. Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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Disruption Versus Tiebout Improvement: The Costs and Benefits of Switching Schools

NBER Working Paper No. w8479
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 17 Sep 2001 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2022
Eric A. Hanushek, John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, University of Texas at Dallas - Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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Does Pollution Increase School Absences?

NBER Working Paper No. w13252
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2022
Janet Currie, Eric A. Hanushek, E. Kahn, Matthew Neidell and Steven G. Rivkin
Princeton University, Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Columbia University and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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Instruction Time, Classroom Quality, and Academic Achievement

NBER Working Paper No. w19464
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 28 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2023
Steven G. Rivkin and Jeffrey C. Schiman
Amherst College - Department of Economics and Georgia Southern University - Department of Finance and Economics
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Disruption, Achievement and the Heterogeneous Benefits of Smaller Classes

NBER Working Paper No. w15812
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2023
Graham McKee, Steven G. Rivkin and Katharine R. E. Sims
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Amherst College - Department of Economics and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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The Evolution of Charter School Quality

NBER Working Paper No. w20645
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 03 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 31 May 2023
Patrick Baude, Marcus D. Casey, Eric A. Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin
University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics, Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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Constrained Job Matching: Does Teacher Job Search Harm Disadvantaged Urban Schools?

NBER Working Paper No. w15816
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 15 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2023
Eric A. Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace and Amherst College - Department of Economics
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The Distribution of Teacher Quality and Implications for Policy

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 4, pp. 131-157, 2012
Posted: 01 Sep 2012
Eric A. Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace and Amherst College - Department of Economics

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