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Thomas J. Kane publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas J. Kane sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 128 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Thomas J. Kane D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas J. Kane sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration

Overview

Thomas J. Kane is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Social Sciences with a significant contribution to Engineering as well. Within these main fields, the work concentrates on several subfields including Education, Information Systems and Management, Demography, Control and Systems Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their research topics cover a range of educational and social issues. Key areas of study include:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Educational Assessment and Improvement
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Online Learning and Analytics
  • Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities

Among the recent publications by Thomas J. Kane are:

  • The Educational Consequences of Remote and Hybrid Instruction during the Pandemic, 2023, American Economic Review Insights
  • Curriculum Reform in The Common Core Era: Evaluating Elementary Math Textbooks Across Six U.S. States, 2020, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
  • Is College Remediation a Barrier or a Boost? Evidence from the Tennessee SAILS Program, 2021, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
  • NILM dashboard: Actionable feedback for condition-based maintenance, 2020, IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine
  • Have Income-Based Achievement Gaps Widened or Narrowed?, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

The most frequent publication venues for Kane's work include:

  • Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
  • Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness
  • American Economic Review Insights
  • IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Thomas J. Kane commonly collaborates with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Douglas O. Staiger
  • Tyler Patterson
  • Dan Goldhaber
  • Rachel Hitch
  • Dana Weisenfeld

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration. This distinction reflects their involvement in public policy and administration-related research activities.

Best Publications

  • Estimating Teacher Impacts on Student Achievement: An Experimental Evaluation

    Thomas J. Kane;Douglas O. Staiger

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

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

  • Labor Market Returns to Two- and Four-Year Colleges: Is a Credit a Credit and Do Degrees Matter?

    Thomas J. Kane;Cecilia E. Rouse

  • Labor-Market Returns to Two- and Four-Year College

    Thomas J. Kane;Cecilia Elena Rouse

  • College Entry by Blacks since 1970: The Role of College Costs, Family Background, and the Returns to Education

    Thomas J. Kane

  • Gathering Feedback for Teaching: Combining High-Quality Observations with Student Surveys and Achievement Gains. Research Paper. MET Project.

    Thomas J. Kane;Douglas O. Staiger

  • Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters And Pilots

    Atila Abdulkadiroğlu;Joshua D. Angrist;Susan M. Dynarski;Thomas J. Kane

  • The Promise and Pitfalls of Using Imprecise School Accountability Measures

    Thomas J. Kane;Douglas O. Staiger

  • The Community College: Educating Students at the Margin Between College and Work

    Thomas J. Kane;Cecilia Elena Rouse

  • Rising Public College Tuition and College Entry: How Well Do Public Subsidies Promote Access to College?

    Thomas J. Kane

  • Identifying Effective Classroom Practices Using Student Achievement Data.

    Thomas J. Kane;Eric S. Taylor;John H. Tyler;Amy L. Wooten

  • Parental Preferences and School Competition: Evidence from a Public School Choice Program

    Justine S. Hastings;Thomas J. Kane;Douglas O. Staiger

  • The Price of Admission: Rethinking How Americans Pay for College

    Thomas J. Kane

  • 8. Student Perceptions of College Opportunities: The Boston COACH Program

    Christopher Avery;Thomas J. Kane;Bruce Sacerdote

  • A Quasi-Experimental Estimate of the Impact of Financial Aid on College-Going

    Thomas J. Kane

  • Have We Identified Effective Teachers?: Validating Measures of Effective Teaching Using Random Assignment

    Thomas J. Kane;Daniel F. McCaffrey;Trey Miller;Douglas Staiger

  • School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment.

    David James Deming;Justine S. Hastings;Thomas J. Kane;Douglas O. Staiger

  • Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher when You Recruit One

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

  • School Quality, Neighborhoods, and Housing Prices

    Thomas J. Kane;Stephanie K. Riegg;Douglas O. Staiger

  • Racial and Ethnic Preferences in College Admissions

    Thomas J. Kane

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas O. Staiger
Douglas O. Staiger Dartmouth College
Justine S. Hastings
Justine S. Hastings University of Washington
Jonah E. Rockoff
Jonah E. Rockoff Columbia University
Susan Dynarski
Susan Dynarski Harvard University
Dietmar Harhoff
Dietmar Harhoff Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Cecilia Elena Rouse
Cecilia Elena Rouse Princeton University
Brian A. Jacob
Brian A. Jacob University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Martin R. West
Martin R. West Harvard University

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