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Overview

Jesse Rothstein is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of economics, econometrics, and social sciences, with significant contributions across several subfields including economics and econometrics, education, gender studies, statistics and probability, and general health professions.

Their work covers a broad range of topics, notably:

  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • School Choice and Performance
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Taxation and Compliance Studies

Rothstein has published frequently in various academic venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • The Journal of Human Resources
  • American Economic Journal Applied Economics
  • Journal of Labor Economics

Their recent papers span key topics in labor economics and policy analysis. Notable publications include:

  • "Measuring the Labor Market at the Onset of the COVID-19 Crisis," 2020, published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "The Augmented Synthetic Control Method," 2021, published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Measuring the Labor Market at the Onset of the COVID-19 Crisis," 2020, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
  • "Can Nudges Increase Take-Up of the EITC? Evidence from Multiple Field Experiments," 2022, American Economic Journal Economic Policy
  • "The Lost Generation?," 2021, The Journal of Human Resources

Jesse Rothstein collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Aparna Ramesh
  • Eli Ben-Michael
  • Elizabeth Linos
  • Matthew Unrath
  • Avi Feller

This breadth of collaboration reflects interdisciplinary engagement within their research scope, often blending methods from econometrics and causal inference with applied economic policy and social science research.

Best Publications

  • Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement

    Jesse Rothstein

  • Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation

    David Card;Alexandre Mas;Jesse Rothstein

  • Evaluating teacher evaluation

    Linda Darling-Hammond;Audrey Amrein-Beardsley;Edward Haertel;Jesse Rothstein

  • Constrained after college: Student loans and early-career occupational choices

    Jesse Rothstein;Cecilia Elena Rouse

  • Racial segregation and the black–white test score gap

    David E. Card;Jesse Rothstein

  • The Value of School Facility Investments: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design

    Stephanie Riegg Cellini;Fernando Ferreira;Jesse Rothstein

  • School Finance Reform and the Distribution of Student Achievement

    Julien Lafortune;Jesse Rothstein;Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

  • Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession

    Jesse Rothstein

  • Student Sorting and Bias in Value-Added Estimation: Selection on Observables and Unobservables

    Jesse Rothstein

  • College performance predictions and the SAT

    Jesse M. Rothstein

  • Measuring the labor market at the onset of the COVID-19 crisis

    Alexander Bartik;Marianne Bertrand;Feng Lin;Jesse Rothstein

  • Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers? Comment

    Jesse Rothstein

  • Good Principals or Good Peers? Parental Valuation of School Characteristics, Tiebout Equilibrium, and the Incentive Effects of Competition among Jurisdictions

    Jesse M. Rothstein

  • Universal Basic Income in the United States and Advanced Countries

    Hilary Hoynes;Jesse Rothstein;Jesse Rothstein

  • Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters

    Jesse Rothstein

  • Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession.

    Andreas I Mueller;Jesse Rothstein;Till M von Wachter

  • Is the EITC as Good as an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence

    Jesse Rothstein

  • Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences Do?

    Jesse Rothstein;Albert H. Yoon

  • The Earned Income Tax Credit

    Austin Nichols;Jesse Rothstein

  • The Labor Market Four Years Into the Crisis: Assessing Structural Explanations

    Jesse Rothstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda Darling-Hammond
Linda Darling-Hammond Stanford University
Brian A. Jacob
Brian A. Jacob University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert C. Pianta
Robert C. Pianta University of Virginia
Cecilia Elena Rouse
Cecilia Elena Rouse Princeton University
Melissa A. Clark
Melissa A. Clark Brown University
Dan Goldhaber
Dan Goldhaber University of Washington
Thomas J. Kane
Thomas J. Kane Harvard University
Jonah E. Rockoff
Jonah E. Rockoff Columbia University

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