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Victor Lavy is a researcher affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their academic work primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a strong focus on Education and related subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Demography, and Economics and Econometrics.

The research topics addressed by Victor Lavy cover a range of issues related to education systems and social outcomes. Key areas of study include:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Innovations in Educational Methods
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Lavy has published extensively in well-known academic venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Economic Journal
  • Journal of Labor Economics
  • Journal of Public Economics
  • The Review of Economic Studies

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Teachers' Pay for Performance in the Long-Run: The Dynamic Pattern of Treatment Effects on Students' Educational and Labour Market Outcomes in Adulthood" (2020, The Review of Economic Studies)
  • "The Short- and the Long-Run Impact of Gender-Biased Teachers" (2024, American Economic Journal Applied Economics)
  • "Does Remedial Education in Late Childhood Pay Off After All? Long-Run Consequences for University Schooling, Labor Market Outcomes, and Intergenerational Mobility" (2021, Journal of Labor Economics)

Victor Lavy frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Ran Abramitzky
  • Rigissa Megalokonomou
  • Genia Rachkovski
  • Michal Palgi
  • Analía Schlosser

The research conducted under these partnerships often explores economic and social dynamics within educational contexts and the long-term effects of educational policies on labor market and social outcomes. Lavy's contributions extend across both theoretical and empirical investigations, informing discussions related to economic incentives in education, gender effects in teaching, and intergenerational mobility.

Best Publications

  • Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement

    Joshua D Angrist;Victor Lavy

  • New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning

    Joshua D. Angrist;Victor Lavy

  • Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School

    Victor Lavy;Analía Schlosser

  • Performance Pay and Teachers' Effort, Productivity and Grading Ethics

    Victor Lavy

  • Multiple Experiments for the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children

    Joshua Angrist;Victor Lavy;Analia Schlosser

  • Evaluating the Effect of Teachers’ Group Performance Incentives on Pupil Achievement

    Victor Lavy

  • Multiple Experiments for the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children

    Joshua David Angrist;Victor Lavy;Analia Schlosser

  • Child Health and School Enrollment: A Longitudinal Analysis

    Harold Alderman;Jere R. Behrman;Victor Lavy;Rekha Menon

  • Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Student Achievement

    Joshua Angrist;Victor Lavy

  • Does Teacher Training Affect Pupil Learning? Evidence from Matched Comparisons in Jerusalem Public Schools

    Joshua D. Angrist;Victor Lavy

  • Inside the Black Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence from Variation in the Proportion of Low Achievers in the Classroom*

    Victor Lavy;M. Daniele Paserman;Analia Schlosser

  • Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence*

    Eric D. Gould;Victor Lavy;M. Daniele Paserman

  • The Long-Run Economic Consequences of High-Stakes Examinations: Evidence from Transitory Variation in Pollution

    Avraham Ebenstein;Victor Lavy;Sefi Roth

  • The Effects of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

    Joshua Angrist;Victor Lavy

  • Do gender stereotypes reduce girls' or boys' human capital outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment ☆

    Victor Lavy

  • The Good, the Bad, and the Average: Evidence on Ability Peer Effects in Schools

    Victor Lavy;Olmo Silva;Felix Weinhardt

  • Quality of health care, survival and health outcomes in Ghana.

    Victor Lavy;John Strauss;Duncan Thomas;Philippe de Vreyer

  • School supply constraints and children's educational outcomes in rural Ghana☆

    Victor Lavy

  • Do Differences in Schools' Instruction Time Explain International Achievement Gaps? Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries

    Victor Lavy;Victor Lavy;Victor Lavy

  • Using performance-based pay to improve the quality of teachers.

    Victor Lavy

  • Do Students Care about School Quality? Determinants of Dropout Behavior in Developing Countries

    Eric A. Hanushek;Victor Lavy;Kohtaro Hitomi

  • Public Policy and Anthropometric Outcomes in the Cote d'Ivoire

    Duncan Thomas;Victor Lavy;John Strauss

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric A. Hanushek
Eric A. Hanushek Hoover Institution
Jere R. Behrman
Jere R. Behrman University of Pennsylvania
Harold Alderman
Harold Alderman International Food Policy Research Institute
Duncan Thomas
Duncan Thomas Duke University
John M. Quigley
John M. Quigley University of California, Berkeley
Daphna Joel
Daphna Joel Tel Aviv University
Hillel Rapoport
Hillel Rapoport Paris School of Economics
Richard Blundell
Richard Blundell University College London
Luis Servén
Luis Servén Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros

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