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Jesse Rothstein

Associate Professor of Public Policy

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School Address:

Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley
2607 Hearst Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720-7320
E-mail: rothstein@berkeley.edu

On leave in 2009-2010:

Council of Economic Advisers
E-mail: JRothstein@cea.eop.gov
Telephone: (202) 395-5108.

Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, 2009 to present
  • Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, 2003 to 2009

Other Appointments

  • Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisers, 2009-2010
  • Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2003 to present

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2003
  • M.P.P., University of California, Berkeley, 2003
  • A.B., Mathematics, Harvard College, 1995
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Publications

  • "Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement." Forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics. PDF. Appendix. Note: This paper previously circulated as "Do Value-Added Models Add Value?"
  • "Are Mixed Neighborhoods Always Unstable? Two-Sided and One-Sided Tipping," with David Card and Alexandre Mas. Forthcoming, How Place Matters, Eugenie Birch and Susan Wachter, eds., University of Pennsylvania Press. PDF.
  • "Is the EITC as Good as an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence." Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. PDF. Appendix.
  • "The Value of School Facility Investments: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design," with Stephanie Cellini and Fernando Ferreira. Forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics. PDF.
  • "Student Sorting and Bias in Value Added Estimation: Selection on Observables and Unobservables." Forthcoming, Education Finance and Policy. PDF.
  • "Selection Bias in College Admissions Test Scores," with Melissa Clark and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach. Economics of Education Review 28(3), June 2009, pp. 295-307. PDF. Free version.
  • "Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences Do?" with Albert Yoon. University of Chicago Law Review 75(2), Spring 2008, pp. 649-714. PDF.
  • "Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation," with David Card and Alexandre Mas. Quarterly Journal of Economics 123(1), February 2008, pp. 177-218. PDF.
  • "Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers? A Comment on Hoxby (2000)." American Economic Review 97(5), December 2007, pp. 2026-2037. PDF. Click here for appendix, programs, supplementary material, and a rejoinder to Professor Hoxby's Reply.
  • "Racial Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap," with David Card. Journal of Public Economics 91(11-12), December 2007, pp. 2158-2184. PDF. See also: Last pre-publication draft; data appendix.
  • "Good Principals or Good Peers: Parental Valuation of School Characteristics, Tiebout Equilibrium, and the Incentive Effects of Competition Among Jurisdictions." American Economic Review 96(4), September 2006, pp. 1333-1350. PDF. See also: Last pre-publication draft; appendices; and data archive (Warning: 23MB).
  • "Race, Income, and College in 25 Years: The Continuing Legacy of Segregation and Discrimination," with Alan Krueger and Sarah Turner. American Law and Economics Review 8(2), Summer 2006, pp. 282-311. PDF. See also: Last pre-publication draft.
  • "Was Justice O'Connor Right? Race and Highly Selective College Admissions in 25 Years," with Alan Krueger and Sarah Turner. In College Access: Opportunity or Privilege, Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro, eds, New York: The College Board, 2006, pp. 35-46. PDF.
  • "College Performance Predictions and the SAT." Journal of Econometrics 121(1-2), July-August 2004, pp. 297-317. PDF. See also: Last pre-publication draft; policy brief.

Working Papers

  • "Permanent Income and the Black-White Test Score Gap", with Nathan Wozny (June 2009). Manuscript.
  • "The Unintended Consequences of Encouraging Work: Tax Incidence and the EITC" (updated: May 2008). Manuscript. Note: This paper previously circulated as "The Mid-1990s EITC Expansion: Aggregate Labor Supply Effects and Economic Incidence."
  • "Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices," with Cecilia Rouse (updated: December 2008).  Manuscript.
  • "Mismatch in Law School," with Albert Yoon (updated: May 2009). Manuscript.
  • "SAT Scores, High Schools, and Collegiate Performance Predictions" (June 2005). Manuscript.
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