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School Choice and Performance

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Ashesh Rambachan
Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology
2
Barbara Biasi
National Bureau of Economic Research
3
Joana Elisa Maldonado
KU Leuven
4
Elisabeth Grewenig
Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
5
Claire Willeck
Princeton University
6
Guthrie Gray-Lobe
University of Chicago
7
Kelli Bird
University of Virginia
8
Simeon Lauterbach
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
9
Rebecca Jack
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
10
Danielle Sanderson Edwards
Dominion University College

Rising Stars Papers

1
The Benefits of Private Participation in Free Secondary Education: Evidence From Education and Labor Market Outcomes in Uganda
SSRN Electronic Journal|2024
99 cit.
2
Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data
The Quarterly Journal of Economics|2024
31 cit.
3
Teacher Shortages: A Framework for Understanding and Predicting Vacancies
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis|2024
29 cit.
4
Are algorithms biased in education? Exploring racial bias in predicting community college student success
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management|2024
27 cit.
5
What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S
SSRN Electronic Journal|2024
10 cit.
6
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Algorithms
AEA Papers and Proceedings|2024
9 cit.
7
Grow Your Own: An Umbrella Term for Very Different Localized Teacher Pipeline Programs
Educational Researcher|2025
8 cit.
8
Design-Based Uncertainty for Quasi-Experiments
Journal of the American Statistical Association|2025
7 cit.
9
Large Language Models: An Applied Econometric Framework
SSRN Electronic Journal|2025
7 cit.
10
What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.
The Quarterly Journal of Economics|2025
7 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Shelley L. Esquivel
University of Nebraska at Omaha
2
Jonathan Roth
John Brown University
3
Dylan Hogan
John Brown University
4
Christopher Redding
University of Florida
5
Lucy Kraftman
Institute for Fiscal Studies
6
Christine Farquharson
Institute for Fiscal Studies
7
Angus Phimister
Institute for Fiscal Studies
8
Sarah Cattan
Institute for Fiscal Studies
9
Gregory Veramendi
Royal Holloway University of London
10
Paula Olszewski‐Kubilius
Northwestern University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
What’s trending in difference-in-differences? A synthesis of the recent econometrics literature
Journal of Econometrics|2023
1.7k cit.
2
A More Credible Approach to Parallel Trends
The Review of Economic Studies|2023
1.2k cit.
3
Pretest with Caution: Event-Study Estimates after Testing for Parallel Trends
American Economic Review Insights|2022
698 cit.
4
When Is Parallel Trends Sensitive to Functional Form?
Econometrica|2023
127 cit.
5
The Long-Term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden
The Economic Journal|2022
44 cit.
6
Education inequalities
Oxford Open Economics|2024
34 cit.
7
Early childhood inequalities
Oxford Open Economics|2024
25 cit.
8
The Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy
SSRN Electronic Journal|2023
17 cit.
9
Are Homegrown Teachers Who Graduate From Urban Districts More Racially Diverse, More Effective, and Less Likely to Exit Teaching?
American Educational Research Journal|2022
15 cit.
10
Health inequalities
Oxford Open Economics|2024
15 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Jacquelynne S. Eccles
University of California System
2
Carol S. Dweck
Columbia University
3
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Michigan State University
4
James Wyckoff
University of Virginia
5
Steven G. Rivkin
University of Illinois Chicago
6
Lant Pritchett
London School of Economics and Political Science
7
Deborah Loewenberg Ball
University of Michigan
8
John U. Ogbu
University of California, Berkeley
9
Christopher Taber
University of Wisconsin–Madison
10
Thomas Lemieux
University of British Columbia

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
A social-cognitive approach to motivation and personality.
Psychological Review|1988
9.2k cit.
2
Expectancy–Value Theory of Achievement Motivation
Contemporary Educational Psychology|2000
7.1k cit.
3
Motivational processes affecting learning.
American Psychologist|1986
6.4k cit.
4
Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data—or tears: An application to educational enrollments in states of India
Demography|2001
5.2k cit.
5
Content Knowledge for Teaching
Journal of Teacher Education|2008
5.2k cit.
6
Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation
Journal of Economic Literature|2009
4.9k cit.
7
Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
Econometrica|2005
4.4k cit.
8
Econometric methods for fractional response variables with an application to 401(k) plan participation rates
Journal of Applied Econometrics|1996
4.1k cit.
9
Regression discontinuity designs: A guide to practice
Journal of Econometrics|2007
3.8k cit.
10
Implicit Theories of Intelligence Predict Achievement Across an Adolescent Transition: A Longitudinal Study and an Intervention
Child Development|2007
3.7k cit.

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