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53
Citations
18312
World Ranking
2240
National Ranking
1083

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Martin Carnoy is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences with a strong emphasis on education. The scholar's work addresses various topics including school choice and performance, intergenerational and educational inequality studies, poverty, education, and child welfare, global educational policies and reforms, global education and multiculturalism, income, poverty, and inequality, and labor market dynamics and wage inequality.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Martin Carnoy include Leonardo Rosa, Rogério Luiz Cardoso Silva Filho, Araújo Simões, Eric Bettinger, and Pedro Dantas.

Their recent papers cover a range of educational and economic topics published in respected venues. These include:

  • "Trends in the academic achievement gap between high and low social class children: The case of Brazil", 2022, International Journal of Educational Development
  • "The effects of public high school subsidies on student test scores", 2022, Economics of Education Review
  • "Does teaching to the test improve student learning?", 2021, International Journal of Educational Development
  • "Beyond scores: A machine learning approach to comparing educational system effectiveness", 2023, PLoS ONE
  • "Comparative education and its discontents", 2025, Comparative Education

The venues in which Martin Carnoy frequently publishes include the International Journal of Educational Development, Economics of Education Review, PLoS ONE, Comparative Education, and Journal of Education and Work.

Martin Carnoy has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Cambridge University Press: "The Political Economy of Education" (2024).

Their work extensively navigates intersecting fields including education, sociology and political science, safety research, economics and econometrics, and political science and international relations.

Martin Carnoy was recognized as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Education as cultural imperialism

    Martin Carnoy

  • Schooling and work in the democratic state

    Martin Carnoy;Henry M. Levin

  • The State and Political Theory

    Martin Carnoy

  • Does External Accountability Affect Student Outcomes? A Cross-State Analysis

    Martin Carnoy;Susanna Loeb

  • Globalization and Educational Reform: What Planners Need to Know

    Martin Carnoy

  • What Does Globalization Mean for Educational Change? A Comparative Approach

    Martin Carnoy;Diana Rhoten

  • The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Private Schools in Chile's Voucher System

    Patrick J. McEwan;Martin Carnoy

  • Sustaining the New Economy: Work, Family, and Community in the Information Age

    Martin Carnoy

  • Education and Social Transition in the Third World

    Martin Carnoy;Joel Samoff

  • El trabajo flexible en la era de la información

    Martín Carnoy;Jesús Alborés Rey

  • Globalization, the knowledge society, and the Network State: Poulantzas at the millennium

    Martin Carnoy;Manuel Castells

  • Cuba's academic advantage

    Martin Carnoy;Amber K. Gove;Jeffery H. Marshall

  • The New Accountability : High Schools and High-Stakes Testing

    Martin Carnoy;Richard F. Elmore;Leslie Santee Siskin

  • National Voucher Plans in Chile and Sweden: Did Privatization Reforms Make for Better Education?

    Martin Carnoy

  • Faded Dreams: The Politics and Economics of Race in America

    Martin Carnoy

  • Cuba’s Academic Advantage: Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School

    Martin Carnoy

  • Labour Markets and Employment Practices in the Age of Flexibility: A Case Study of Silicon Valley.

    Martin Carnoy

  • University Expansion in a Changing Global Economy: Triumph of the BRICs?

    Martin Carnoy;Prashant Loyalka;Maria Dobryakova;Rafiq Dossani

  • The New Global Economy in the Information Age

    Martin Carnoy;Manuel Castells;Stephen S. Cohen;Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  • The Charter School Dust-Up: Examining the Evidence on Enrollment and Achievement

    Martin Carnoy

  • The New Global Economy in the Information Age : Reflections on Our Changing World

    Martin Carnoy;Manuel Castells;Stephen S. Cohen;Fernando H. Cardoso

  • Schooling and Work in the Democratic State.

    Julia Wrigley;Martin Carnoy;Henry M. Levin

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Castells
Manuel Castells University of Southern California
Susanna Loeb
Susanna Loeb Brown University
Carlos Alberto Torres
Carlos Alberto Torres University of California, Los Angeles
Richard F. Elmore
Richard F. Elmore Harvard University
Brian Rowan
Brian Rowan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
William H. Schmidt
William H. Schmidt Michigan State University
Cecilia Elena Rouse
Cecilia Elena Rouse Princeton University
Alain Touraine
Alain Touraine École Normale Supérieure
Russell W. Rumberger
Russell W. Rumberger University of California, Santa Barbara

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