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Jesse Rothstein

Jesse Rothstein is an economist, and currently professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, he was chief economist at the US Department of Labor. He is the founding director of the California Policy Lab, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a member of the editorial boards of Education Finance and Policy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Review, and Industrial Relations.

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Jesse Rothstein
Academic background
Alma materA.B. (1995), Harvard University
M.P.P.(2003), Ph.D. (2003), University of California, Berkeley
David Card
InfluencesRichard Rothstein
Academic work
DisciplineLabor economics, Education economics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley, Princeton University
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Jesse Rothstein is an economist, and currently professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, he was chief economist at the US Department of Labor. He is the founding director of the California Policy Lab, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a member of the editorial boards of Education Finance and Policy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Review, and Industrial Relations.1234

Selected works

  • Rothstein, Jesse. "Teacher quality in educational production: Tracking, decay, and student achievement." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 125, no. 1 (2010): 175–214.
  • Card, David, Alexandre Mas, and Jesse Rothstein. "Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 123, no. 1 (2008): 177–218.
  • Card, David, and Jesse Rothstein. "Racial segregation and the black–white test score gap." Journal of Public Economics 91, no. 11-12 (2007): 2158–2184.
  • Rothstein, Jesse. "Student sorting and bias in value-added estimation: Selection on observables and unobservables." Education Finance and Policy 4, no. 4 (2009): 537–571.
  • Rothstein, Jesse M. "College performance predictions and the SAT." Journal of Econometrics 121, no. 1-2 (2004): 297–317.
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References

  1. "Jesse Rothstein". Department of Economics. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  2. "Jesse Rothstein". Economic Policy Institute. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  3. "Jesse Rothstein". www.nber.org. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  4. "Jesse Rothstein – California Policy Lab". April 2017. Retrieved August 18, 2020.