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Overview

Jonah E. Rockoff is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences with a focus on education, demography, accounting, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality

Jonah E. Rockoff's publication record includes contributions in academic venues such as Harvard Dataverse and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Rockoff include:

  • Replication Data for: Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: (I) Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates; (II) Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood, 2022, Harvard Dataverse
  • Pension Reform and Labor Supply: Retention and Productivity Under a Pension Cut, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

The scientist has collaborated with several researchers across different works. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Raj Chetty
  • John N. Friedman
  • Andrew C. Johnston
  • James R. Harrington

Best Publications

  • The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence from Panel Data

    Jonah E. Rockoff

  • Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

    Raj Chetty;John N Friedman;Jonah E Rockoff

  • What does certification tell us about teacher effectiveness?: evidence from New York City

    Thomas J. Kane;Jonah E. Rockoff;Douglas O. Staiger

  • Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

    Raj Chetty;John N Friedman;Jonah E Rockoff

  • The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools

    Donald Boyd;Hamilton Lankford;Susanna Loeb;Jonah Rockoff

  • The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

    Raj Chetty;John N. Friedman;Jonah E. Rockoff

  • Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values from Megan's Laws

    Leigh Linden;Jonah E. Rockoff

  • Searching for Effective Teachers with Imperfect Information

    Douglas O. Staiger;Jonah E. Rockoff

  • Value-added modeling: A review

    Cory Koedel;Kata Mihaly;Jonah E. Rockoff

  • Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher when You Recruit One

    Jonah E. Rockoff;Brian A. Jacob;Thomas J. Kane;Douglas O. Staiger

  • School Principals and School Performance. Working Paper 38.

    Damon Clark;Paco Martorell;Jonah Rockoff

  • School Segregation, Educational Attainment and Crime Evidence from the end of busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg

    Stephen B Billings;David J Deming;Jonah E Rockoff

  • Teacher Effects and Teacher-Related Policies

    C. Kirabo Jackson;Jonah E. Rockoff;Douglas O. Staiger

  • Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality

    Jonah E Rockoff;Lesley J Turner

  • Under Pressure: Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools under No Child Left Behind

    Randall Reback;Jonah Rockoff;Heather L. Schwartz

  • Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City

    Jonah E. Rockoff

  • INFORMATION AND EMPLOYEE EVALUATION: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED INTERVENTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

    Jonah E Rockoff;Douglas O Staiger;Thomas J Kane;Eric S Taylor

  • Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior

    J.J. Prescott;Jonah E. Rockoff

  • Reputation and School Competition

    W. Bentley MacLeod;Miguel Urquiola

  • The narrowing gap in New York City teacher qualifications and its implications for student achievement in high-poverty schools: The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications

    Donald Boyd;Hamilton Lankford;Susanna Loeb;Jonah Rockoff

  • The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood. NBER Working Paper No. 17699.

    Raj Chetty;John N. Friedman;Jonah E. Rockoff

  • The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and Its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools. Working Paper 10.

    Donald Boyd;Hamilton Lankford;Susanna Loeb;Jonah Rockoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas O. Staiger
Douglas O. Staiger Dartmouth College
Brian A. Jacob
Brian A. Jacob University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Thomas J. Kane
Thomas J. Kane Harvard University
Susanna Loeb
Susanna Loeb Brown University
James Wyckoff
James Wyckoff University of Virginia
Thomas S. Dee
Thomas S. Dee Stanford University
Jesse Rothstein
Jesse Rothstein University of California, Berkeley
Dan Goldhaber
Dan Goldhaber University of Washington
Robert C. Pianta
Robert C. Pianta University of Virginia
Linda Darling-Hammond
Linda Darling-Hammond Stanford University

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