Jesse Rothstein
rothstein@berkeley.edu
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Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
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JESSE ROTHSTEIN
Professor of
Public Policy and
Economics
Director,
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)
Co-Director, California Policy Lab
University of California, Berkeley
NON-ACADEMIC WRITING, VIDEO, TEACHING, ETC.
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NEW
"Making Work Pay Better Through an Expanded Earned Income Tax Credit" (with Hilary Hoynes and Krista Ruffini). In Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach & Ryan Nunn, eds., The 51%: Driving Growth through Women's Economic Participation, The Hamilton Project/Brookings Institution, 2017.
"There is more to equal access to a good education than sound school budgets." Policy brief, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, August 2017. (Source paper).
"What Does the Seattle Experience Teach Us About Minimum Wages?" (with Diane Schanzenbach) EconoFact, Tufts University, August 7, 2017.
"The Impact of Letters of Recommendation on UC Berkeley Admissions in the 2016-17 Cycle." Report to the UC Berkeley faculty committee on Admissions, Enrollment, and Preparatory Education, June 2017.
"Do Minimum Wages Really Kill Jobs?" (with Michael Reich) EconoFact, Tufts University, April 27, 2017.
"Social Security Benefits: When Do You Plan to Retire?" EconoFact, Tufts University, February 9, 2017.
"Can Value-Added Models Identify Teachers' Impacts?" Policy brief, UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, December 2016. (Source paper).
"Expand Social Security."
Washington Center for Equitable Growth, October 31, 2016.
(Bloomberg interview).
SCHOOL FINANCE
NEW "There is more to equal access to a good education than sound school budgets." Policy brief, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, August 2017. (Source paper).
"Can School Finance Reforms Improve Student Achievement?" Policy brief, UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, March 2016. (Source paper).
"Using Housing Markets to Estimate the Value of School Infrastructure Investments,"
with Stephanie Riegg Cellini and Fernando Ferreira.
Wharton Real Estate Review 15(2), Fall 2011.
(Source paper).
(Free pre-publication version)
THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT
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NEW "Making Work Pay Better Through an Expanded Earned Income Tax Credit" (with Hilary Hoynes and Krista Ruffini). In Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach & Ryan Nunn, eds., The 51%: Driving Growth through Women's Economic Participation, The Hamilton Project/Brookings Institution, 2017. p class="hangingindent"> "The New California Earned Income Tax Credit." Policy brief, UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment December 2015.
"The Earned Income Tax Credit."
Issue brief,
Washington Center for Equitable Growth, December 2015.
UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
"Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession." May 2014. NBER Digest lay summary of this paper.
TEACHER EVALUATION
NEW "Can Value-Added Models Identify Teachers' Impacts?" Policy brief, UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, December 2016. (Source paper).
"Q&A: The Economic Consequences of Denying Teacher Tenure." The American Prospect, August 4, 2016.
VIDEO. Panel
discussion at New York State Board of Regents Learning Summit on Annual Professional
Performance Review, May 7, 2014.
"Taking on Teacher Tenure Backfires."
Op-ed, The New York Times, June 13, 2014.
(Drawing on this paper)
VIDEO. "Evaluating Teacher Evaluation: What Are Value-Added Metrics?"
Speech at DePaul University, May 30, 2012.
"Evaluating Teacher Evaluation,"
with Linda Darling-Hammond, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, and Edward Haertel.
Phi Delta Kappan 93(6), March 2012, p.p. 8-15.
(Free version).
"Let's Not Rush into Value-Added Evaluations."
The New York Times Room for Debate, January 16, 2012.
NEW
"What Does the Seattle Experience Teach Us About Minimum Wages?" (with Diane Schanzenbach)
EconoFact, Tufts University, August 7, 2017.
NEW
"The Impact of Letters of Recommendation on UC Berkeley Admissions
in the 2016-17 Cycle."
Report to the UC Berkeley faculty committee on Admissions, Enrollment, and Preparatory Education,
June 2017.OTHER TOPICS
NEW "Do Minimum Wages Really Kill Jobs?" (with Michael Reich) EconoFact, Tufts University, April 27, 2017.
NEW "Social Security Benefits: When Do You Plan to Retire?" EconoFact, Tufts University, February 9, 2017.
NEW "Expand Social Security." Washington Center for Equitable Growth, October 31, 2016. (Bloomberg interview).
VIDEO. American Economic Association Continuing Education Course in Labor Economics, with Lowell Taylor. (Day 1). (Day 2) (Day 3).
"Conversation: Merit, Testing, and Opportunity," with Richard Rothstein. The American Prospect 11(21), Sept. 25-Oct. 9, 2000, pp. 19-20.
"Taxes and the Internet: Updating Tax Structures for a Wired World"
(with Traci Gleason Wright). State Tax Notes 17(9), August 23, 1999.