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Amy Ellen Schwartz

Amy Ellen Schwartz

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
41
Citations
7445
World Ranking
5032
National Ranking
2375

Overview

Amy Ellen Schwartz is affiliated with Syracuse University in the United States and has made contributions predominantly in the social sciences. Their research spans several interrelated subfields including education, sociology and political science, public health, environmental and occupational health, economics and econometrics, and general health professions.

The main research topics covered by Amy Ellen Schwartz focus on school choice and performance, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, obesity, physical activity, and diet, housing market and economics, youth substance use and school attendance, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, as well as urban transport and accessibility.

Some of the recent published papers include:

  • Does proximity to fast food cause childhood obesity? Evidence from public housing, 2020, Regional Science and Urban Economics
  • Do school buses make school choice work?, 2020, Regional Science and Urban Economics
  • Paying for Free Lunch: The Impact of CEP Universal Free Meals on Revenues, Spending, and Student Health, 2022, Education Finance and Policy
  • Relationship between retail food outlets near public schools and adolescent obesity in New York City, 2020, Health & Place
  • The academic effects of chronic exposure to neighbourhood violence, 2021, Urban Studies

Amy Ellen Schwartz has frequently co-authored work with several researchers, including:

  • Brian Elbel
  • Leanna Stiefel
  • Jeehee Han
  • Sarah Cordes
  • Ingrid Gould Ellen

The most common venues where Amy Ellen Schwartz publishes include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Regional Science and Urban Economics
  • Education Finance and Policy
  • Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
  • Health & Place

Best Publications

  • State infrastructure and productive performance

    Catherine J. Morrison;Amy Ellen Schwartz

  • Spatial Productivity Spillovers from Public Infrastructure: Evidence from State Highways

    Douglas Holtz-Eakin;Amy Schwartz

  • Infrastructure in a Structural Model of Economic Growth

    Douglas Holtz-Eakin;Amy Ellen Schwartz

  • Cigarettes and Alcohol: Substitutes or Complements?

    Sandra L. Decker;Amy Ellen Schwartz

  • The external effects of place-based subsidized housing

    Amy Ellen Schwartz;Ingrid Gould Ellen;Ioan Voicu;Michael H. Schill

  • High Stakes in the Classroom, High Stakes on the Street: The Effects of Community Violence on Student’s Standardized Test Performance

    Patrick Sharkey;Amy Ellen Schwartz;Ingrid Gould Ellen;Johanna Lacoe

  • Let Them Eat Lunch: The Impact of Universal Free Meals on Student Performance

    Amy Ellen Schwartz;Michah W. Rothbart

  • Building Homes, Reviving Neighborhoods: Spillovers from Subsidized Construction of Owner-Occupied Housing in New York City

    Ingrid Ellen;Michael H. Schill;Amy Ellen Schwartz;Scott Susin

  • Not just for poor kids: The impact of universal free school breakfast on meal participation and student outcomes

    Jacob Leos-Urbel;Amy Ellen Schwartz;Meryle Weinstein;Sean Corcoran

  • Spatial productivity spillovers from public infrastructure: Evidence from state highways

    Douglas Holtz-Eakin;Amy Ellen Schwartz

  • From Districts to Schools: The Distribution of Resources across Schools in Big City School Districts.

    Ross Rubenstein;Amy Ellen Schwartz;Leanna Stiefel;Hella Bel Hadj Amor

  • Effect of a School-Based Water Intervention on Child Body Mass Index and Obesity

    Amy Ellen Schwartz;Michele Leardo;Siddhartha Aneja;Brian D. Elbel

  • State Infrastructure and Productive Performance

    Catherine Morrison Paul;Amy Schwartz

  • Revitalizing inner‐city neighborhoods: New York city's Ten‐Year Plan

    Michael H. Schill;Ingrid Gould Ellen;Amy Ellen Schwartz;Ioan Voicu

  • Does attending a STEM high school improve student performance? Evidence from New York City

    Matthew Wiswall;Leanna Stiefel;Amy Ellen Schwartz;Jessica Boccardo

  • Does losing your home mean losing your school?: Effects of foreclosures on the school mobility of children☆

    Vicki Been;Ingrid Gould Ellen;Amy Ellen Schwartz;Leanna Stiefel

  • Training Your Own: The Impact of New York City’s Aspiring Principals Program on Student Achievement

    Sean P. Corcoran;Amy Ellen Schwartz;Meryle Weinstein

  • Do small schools improve performance in large, urban districts? Causal evidence from New York City

    Amy Ellen Schwartz;Leanna Stiefel;Matthew Wiswall;Matthew Wiswall

  • Public Infrastructure, Private Input Demand, and Economic Performance in New England Manufacturing

    Catherine J. Morrison;Amy Ellen Schwartz

  • Does federally subsidized rental housing depress neighborhood property values

    Ingrid Gould Ellen;Amy Ellen Schwartz;Ioan Voicu;Michael H. Schill

  • Is There a Nativity Gap? New Evidence on the Academic Performance of Immigrant Students.

    Amy Ellen Schwartz;Leanna Stiefel

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingrid Gould Ellen
Ingrid Gould Ellen New York University
Douglas Almond
Douglas Almond Columbia University
Dustin T. Duncan
Dustin T. Duncan Columbia University

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