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Steven G. Rivkin

Steven G. Rivkin

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
44
Citations
27846
World Ranking
3968
National Ranking
1883

Overview

Steven G. Rivkin is affiliated with Amherst College in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences, with a strong focus on education. Their work addresses several subfields, including education, sociology and political science, demography, management science and operations research, and statistics and probability.

Among their main research topics are school choice and performance, parental involvement in education, intergenerational and educational inequality studies, global educational reforms and inequalities, evaluation and performance assessment, higher education research studies, and advanced causal inference techniques.

The list of recent papers authored or co-authored by Steven G. Rivkin includes:

  • "Performance Information and Personnel Decisions in the Public Sector," 2021, The Journal of Human Resources
  • "Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools," 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Academic Mobility in U.S. Public Schools: Evidence from Nearly 3 Million Students," 2023, Journal of Public Economics
  • "The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement," 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "School District Investments in General Skills: The Case of Principal Residency Programs," 2023, IZA Journal of Labor Economics

Steven G. Rivkin frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Human Resources
  • Journal of Public Economics
  • IZA Journal of Labor Economics
  • Studies In Educational Evaluation

Collaborations have been made with several frequent co-authors, among them:

  • Eric A. Hanushek
  • Gregory Phelan
  • Minh Nguyen
  • Wes Austin
  • Dan Goldhaber

Best Publications

  • Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement

    Steven G. Rivkin;Eric A. Hanushek;John F. Kain

  • Why Public Schools Lose Teachers

    Eric A. Hanushek;John F. Kain;Steven G. Rivkin

  • Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement

    Eric A. Hanushek;John F. Kain;Jacob M. Markman;Steven G. Rivkin

  • Generalizations about Using Value-Added Measures of Teacher Quality

    Eric A. Hanushek;Steven G. Rivkin

  • The Market for Teacher Quality

    Eric A. Hanushek;John F. Kain;Steven G. Rivkin;Daniel M. O'Brien

  • Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement

    Eric Hanushek;John Kain;Steven Rivkin

  • New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education: The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement

    Eric A. Hanushek;John F. Kain;Steven G. Rivkin

  • Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School Resources

    Eric A. Hanushek;Steven G. Rivkin;Lori L. Taylor

  • Disruption versus Tiebout improvement: the costs and benefits of switching schools

    Eric A. Hanushek;Eric A. Hanushek;John F. Kain;Steven G. Rivkin;Steven G. Rivkin

  • The Market for Teacher Quality

    Eric A. Hanushek;John F. Kain;Daniel M. O'Brien;Steven G. Rivkin

  • Pay, Working Conditions, and Teacher Quality

    Eric Alan Hanushek;Steven G. Rivkin

  • The Distribution of Teacher Quality and Implications for Policy

    Eric A. Hanushek;Eric A. Hanushek;Eric A. Hanushek;Steven G. Rivkin;Steven G. Rivkin

  • How to Improve the Supply of High-Quality Teachers

    Eric Alan Hanushek;Steven G. Rivkin

  • Charter school quality and parental decision making with school choice

    Eric A. Hanushek;Eric A. Hanushek;Eric A. Hanushek;John F. Kain;Steven G. Rivkin;Steven G. Rivkin;Steven G. Rivkin;Gregory F. Branch

  • Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity: the Case of School Principals

    Gregory Branch;Gregory F. Branch;Eric A. Hanushek;Steven G. Rivkin

  • Class Size Reduction and Student Achievement: The Potential Tradeoff between Teacher Quality and Class Size

    Christopher. Jepsen;Steven G. Rivkin

  • The Market for Teacher Quality. NBER Working Paper No. 11154.

    Eric A. Hanushek;John F. Kain;Daniel M. O'Brien;Steven G. Rivkin

  • Do Higher Salaries Buy Better Teachers

    Eric A. Hanushek;John F. Kain;Steven G. Rivkin

  • DOES POLLUTION INCREASE SCHOOL ABSENCES

    Janet Marion Currie;Eric A. Hanushek;E. Megan Kahn;Matthew Neidell

  • Inferring Program Effects for Special Populations: Does Special Education Raise Achievement for Students with Disabilities?

    Eric A. Hanushek;John F. Kain;Steven G. Rivkin

  • Harming the best: How schools affect the black-white achievement gap

    Eric A. Hanushek;Steven G. Rivkin

Frequent Co-Authors

John F. Kain
John F. Kain The University of Texas at Dallas
Janet Currie
Janet Currie Princeton University
Matthew Neidell
Matthew Neidell Columbia University
Dan Goldhaber
Dan Goldhaber University of Washington

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