Education and Training

Job Training

WP-01-05
How Can Low-Status Colleges Help Young Adults Gain Access to Better Jobs?: Applications of Human Capital vs. Sociological Models
Regina Deil and James E. Rosenbaum

WP-98-03
Education, Overeducation, and Youth Employment in the United States and Germany: The Mechanics of Restructuring
James C. Witte

WP-97-09
Creation and Maintenance of Effective School-Work Linkages: Implications for Systemic Reform
Stephanie Alter Jones and James E. Rosenbaum

WP-96-11
Employer Learning and the Signaling Value of Education
Joseph G. Altonji and Charles R. Pierret

Primary Education

WP-12-05
Is Being in School Better? The Impact of School on Children’s BMI When Starting is Endogenous 
Patricia Anderson, Kristin Butcher, Elizabeth Cascio, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

WP-11-14
Instructional Advice and Information Seeking Behavior in Elementary Schools: Exploring Tie Formation as a Building Block in Social Capital Development
James Spillane, Chong Min Kim, and Kenneth A. Frank

WP-05-02
Professional Community or Communities? School Subject Matter and Elementary School Teachers’ Work Environments
Page Hayton and James P. Spillane

WP-02-22
High Stakes Accountability in Urban Elementary Schools: Challenging or Reproducing Inequality?
John B. Diamond and James P. Spillane

WP-96-08
Parent Involvement in Shared Decision Making: Barriers to Democratic Participation in Urban Elementary Schools
John B.Diamond
Secondary Education

Secondary Education

WP-11-04
Information Is Not Enough: Cultural Capital, Cultural Capital Translators, and College Access for Disadvantaged Students
James Rosenbaum and Michelle Naffziger

WP-11-06
Can High Schools Reduce College Enrollment Gaps with a New Counseling Model?
Jennifer Stephan and James Rosenbaum

WP-08-07
Permeability and Transparency in the High School-College Transition
by Jennifer Stephan and James Rosenbaum

WP-02-31
The Black-White-Other Test Score Gap: Academic Achievement Among Mixed Race Adolescents
Melissa R. Herman

WP-00-18
Are Dropout Decisions Related to Safety Concerns, Social Isolation, and Teacher Disparagement?
Stefanie DeLuca and James E. Rosenbaum

WP-99-15
Do Low-SES Students Get Less Payoff for their School Efforts?
James E. Rosenbaum and Stefanie DeLuca

WP-97-22
Shortcut: High School Grades as a Signal of Human Capital
Shazia Rafiullah

Higher Education

WP-12-03
Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion
Susan Dynarski, Joshua Hyman, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

WP-05-03
Labor-Market Linkages Among Two-Year College Faculty and Their Impact on Student Perceptions, Efforts, and College Persistence
James E. Rosenbaum and Ann E. Person

WP-04-01
“Chain Enrollment” and College “Enclaves”: Benefits and Drawbacks for Latino College Students
Ann E. Person and James E. Rosenbaum

WP-02-30
The Social Prerequisites of Success: Can College Structure Reduce the Need For Social Know-How?
Regina Deil-Amen and James E. Rosenbaum

WP-97-21
College-for-All: Do Students Understand What College Demands?
James E. Rosenbaum

WP-96-09
Individuals in Institutional Contexts: A Reexamination of Factors Influencing Degree Attainment
James C. Witte and Curtis Askew

Administration

WP-09-04
Coupling Administrative Practice with the Technical Core and External Regulation: The Role of Organizational Routines
James P. Spillane, Leigh Mesler, Christiana Croegaert, and Jennifer Zoltners Sherer

WP-03-04
Policy, Administration, and Instructional Practice: “Loose Coupling” Revisited
James P. Spillane and Patricia Burch

WP-01-04
Exploring the Construction of Leadership for Instruction in Urban Elementary Schools: Leadership as Symbolic Power
James P. Spillane, Tim Hallett, and John B. Diamond

WP-99-03
Distributed Leadership: Toward a Theory of School Leadership Practice
James P. Spillane, Richard Halverson, and John B. Diamond

WP-98-26
So Much Reform, So Little Change: Building-Level Obstacles to Urban School Reform
Charles M. Payne

WP-98-04
School Spending and Student Achievement: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Jens O. Ludwig and Laurie J. Bassi

Miscellaneous

WP-12-04
Adequate (Or Adipose?) Yearly Progress: Assessing the Effect of “No Child Left Behind” on Children’s Obesity
Patricia Anderson, Kristin Butcher, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

WP-10-06
School Accountability and Teacher Mobility
Li Feng, David Figlio, and Tim Sass

WP-10-03
Competitive Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers
David Figlio and Cassandra Hart

WP-09-08
Public Sector Performance Measurement and Stakeholder Support
David N. Figlio and Lawrence W. Kenny

WP-05-04
How Large an Effect Can We Expect From School Reforms?
Spyros Konstantopoulos and Larry V. Hedges

WP-05-01
The Contributions of Hard Skills and Socio-emotional Behavior to School Readiness
Greg J. Duncan, Amy Claessens, and Mimi Engel

WP-02-29
An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schooling
Joseph Altonji, Todd Elder, and Christopher Taber

WP-02-21
Two Revolutions In Educational Attainment Research: Their Impact on Public Understanding and Social Policy
James E. Rosenbaum

WP-02-20
Organizational Effects on Learning: A Conceptual Model and Research Review
James E. Rosenbaum

WP-02-19
Randomized Experiments in Education: Why Are They So Rare?
Thomas D. Cook

WP-00-17
Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables:Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools
Joseph G. Altonji, Todd E. Elder and Christopher R. Taber

WP-00-01
Using Performance Standards to Evaluate Social Programs with Incomplete Outcome Data: General Issues and Application to a Higher Education Block Grant Program
Charles F. Manski, John Newman, and John V. Pepper

WP-99-16
The Effects of Private School Competition on Student Achievement
Christopher Jepsen

WP-99-02
Considering the Major Arguments Against Random Assignment: An Analysis of the Intellectual Culture Surrounding Evaluation in American Schools of Education
Thomas D. Cook

WP-98-25
Comer's School Development Program in Prince George's County, Maryland: A Theory-Based Evaluation
Thomas D. Cook, Farah-naaz Habib, Meredith Phillips, Richard A. Settersten, Shobha C. Shagle, and Serdar M. Degirmencioglu

WP-98-24
Comer's School Development Program in Chicago: A Theory-Based Evaluation
Thomas D. Cook, H. David Hunt, and Robert F. Murphy

WP-98-05
Challenging Instruction for "All Students": Policy, Practitioners, and Practice
James P. Spillane

WP-97-08
I Don't Want Your Nasty Pot of Gold: Urban School Climate and Public Policy
Charles M. Payne

WP-96-27
Changes in Tracking Policy in Japan: Unintended Consequences of Detracking Policy
Takehiko Kariya and James E. Rosenbaum

WP-96-10
Using Siblings to Estimate the Effect of School Quality on Wages
Joseph G. Altonji and Thomas A. Dunn

WP-96-06
Street Literacy and Performative Writing
Dwight Conquergood