Jonah E. Rockoff

Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance

3022 Broadway

New York, NY 10027

United States

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

28

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Scholarly Papers (28)

Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?

Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 54, No. 1, February 2011, Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2015
J.J. Prescott and Jonah E. Rockoff
University of Michigan Law School and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
Downloads 2,226 (14,539)
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sex offenders, rape, molestation, deterrence, incapacitation, registration, notification, recidivism, shaming

Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?

NBER Working Paper No. w13803
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 06 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2022
J.J. Prescott and Jonah E. Rockoff
University of Michigan Law School and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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There Goes the Neighborhood? Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values from Megan's Laws

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 19 May 2006
Leigh L. Linden and Jonah E. Rockoff
The University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
Downloads 563 (104,483)
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crime, property values, child safety, victimization costs

There Goes the Neighborhood? Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values from Megan's Laws

NBER Working Paper No. w12253
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 20 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2022
Leigh L. Linden and Jonah E. Rockoff
The University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
Downloads 97 (593,027)
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Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 19 Jun 2008
Jonah E. Rockoff
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City

Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 24 Aug 2011
Jonah E. Rockoff
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City

NBER Working Paper No. w13868
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 19 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2022
Jonah E. Rockoff
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Rules and Discretion in the Evaluation of Students and Schools: The Case of the New York Regents Examinations

Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Aug 2011
, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Columbia University - Law School
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Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 02 Sep 2008
Jonah E. Rockoff and Lesley J. Turner
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Columbia University
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school reform, accountability

Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 119-147, 2010
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 27 Oct 2011
Jonah E. Rockoff and Lesley J. Turner
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Columbia University
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Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality

NBER Working Paper No. w14564
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 29 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2022
Jonah E. Rockoff and Lesley J. Turner
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Columbia University
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Subjective and Objective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness

American Economic Review, Vol. 100, No. 2, pp. 261-266, May 2010
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 27 Oct 2011
Jonah E. Rockoff
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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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
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Stuck in the Middle: Impacts of Grade Configuration in Public Schools

Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 94, Nos. 11 & 12, pp. 1051-1061, 2010
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Oct 2011
Jonah E. Rockoff
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

NBER Working Paper No. w17699
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 08 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 13 May 2023
Harvard University, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers Ii: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

NBER Working Paper No. w19424
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 14 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2023
Harvard University, Brown University, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Under Pressure: Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools Under NCLB

Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 Aug 2011
Randall Reback, Jonah E. Rockoff and Heather Schwartz
Columbia University, Barnard College - Department of Economics, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and RAND Corporation
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Under Pressure: Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools Under Nclb

NBER Working Paper No. w16745
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 31 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2023
Randall Reback, Jonah E. Rockoff and Heather Schwartz
Columbia University, Barnard College - Department of Economics, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and RAND 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
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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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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
Jonah E. Rockoff, Brian Jacob, Thomas J. Kane and Douglas Staiger
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
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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism, and the Earnings Gap: Comment

Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 Aug 2011
Jonah E. Rockoff and Mariesa A Herrmann
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
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Worker Absence and Productivity: Evidence from Teaching

NBER Working Paper No. w16524
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2023
Mariesa A Herrmann and Jonah E. Rockoff
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Worker Absence and Productivity: Evidence from Teaching

Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 24 Aug 2011
Mariesa A Herrmann and Jonah E. Rockoff
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

NBER Working Paper No. w19423
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 14 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2023
Harvard University, Brown University, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools

NBER Working Paper No. w14021
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022
SUNY at Albany, SUNY at Albany - College of Arts and Sciences, Stanford University, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and SUNY at Albany - College of Arts and Sciences
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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
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Field Experiments in Class Size from the Early Twentieth Century

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 211-230, 2010
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 27 Oct 2011
Jonah E. Rockoff
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Does Menstruation Explain Gender Gaps in Work Absenteeism?

NBER Working Paper No. w16523
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2023
Jonah E. Rockoff and Mariesa A Herrmann
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
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Local Response to Fiscal Incentives in Heterogeneous Communities

Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 138-147, 2010
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Oct 2011
Jonah E. Rockoff
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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School Segregation, Educational Attainment and Crime: Evidence from the End of Busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg

NBER Working Paper No. w18487
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2023
University of Colorado - Boulder, Academic Dean, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Teacher Applicant Hiring and Teacher Performance: Evidence from Dc Public Schools

NBER Working Paper No. w22054
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 07 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2023
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance, Harvard University - Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teach For America and MDRC
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Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind: Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of Nclb

NBER Working Paper No. w18988
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 21 May 2023
Columbia University - Teachers' College, Columbia University, Barnard College - Department of Economics, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and RAND Corporation
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The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations

NBER Working Paper No. w22165
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 11 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2023
Thomas Dee, Will Dobbie, Brian A. Jacob and Jonah E. Rockoff
Stanford University, Princeton University, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
Downloads 33 (1,000,935)
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Using Lagged Outcomes to Evaluate Bias in Value-Added Models

NBER Working Paper No. w21961
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 08 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2023
Raj Chetty, John Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff
Harvard University, Brown University and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: Response to Rothstein (2014)

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10768
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 18 Aug 2015
Raj Chetty, John Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff
Harvard University, Brown University and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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education policy, teacher effects, value-added models

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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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