NBER Publications by Jacob L. Vigdor
Working Papers and Chapters
| November 2007 | Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About in the U.S.?
with Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, Jacob L. Vigdor: w13648
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| Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects
with Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, Jacob L. Vigdor: w13617
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| May 2007 | When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States
with David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser, Jacob L. Vigdor: w13082
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| April 2007 | The Katrina Effect: Was There a Bright Side to the Evacuation of Greater New Orleans?
w13022
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| March 2007 | Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap
with Jacob Vigdor, Jens Ludwig: w12988
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| Is Urban Decay Bad? Is Urban Revitalization Bad Too?
w12955
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| January 2007 | How and Why do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement?
with Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, Jacob L. Vigdor: w12828
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| August 2006 | Should Sixth Grade be in Elementary or Middle School? An Analysis of Grade Configuration and Student Behavior
with Philip J. Cook, Robert MacCoun, Clara Muschkin, Jacob Vigdor: w12471
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| July 2006 | Fifty Million Voters Can't Be Wrong: Economic Self-Interest and Redistributive Politics
w12371
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| June 2006 | Do Rising Tides Lift All Prices? Income Inequality and Housing Affordability
with Janna L. Matlack, Jacob L. Vigdor: w12331
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| Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina
with Charles Clotfelter, Elizabeth Glennie, Helen Ladd, Jacob Vigdor: w12285
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| May 2006 | The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8
with Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, Jacob L. Vigdor: w12207
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| April 2006 | The New Promised Land: Black-White Convergence in the American South, 1960-2000
w12143
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| January 2006 | Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness
with Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, Jacob L. Vigdor: w11936
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| May 2005 | Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation
with David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser, Jacob L. Vigdor: w11295
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| January 2005 | Federal Oversight, Local Control, and the Specter of "Resegregation" in Southern Schools
with Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd: w11086
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| July 2004 | Liquidity Constraints and Housing Prices: Theory and Evidence from the VA Mortgage
w10611
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| January 1997 | The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto
with David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser, Jacob L. Vigdor: w5881
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