Topic · School Choice and Performance
Most cited papers in School Choice and Performance
What are the most cited papers in School Choice and Performance?
The most cited paper in School Choice and Performance is "Estimating causal effects of treatments in randomized and nonrandomized studies." (Donald B. Rubin, 1974), with 9,635 citations. Next come "Expectancy–Value Theory of Achievement Motivation" (7,364) and "Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem" (6,370).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,134 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Estimating causal effects of treatments in randomized and nonrandomized studies. Donald B. Rubin · Journal of Educational Psychology | Oct 1974 | 9,635 |
| 2 | Expectancy–Value Theory of Achievement Motivation Allan Wigfield, Jacquelynne S. Eccles · Contemporary Educational Psychology | 2000 | 7,364 |
| 3 | Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem Charles F. Manski · The Review of Economic Studies | Jul 1993 | 6,370 |
| 4 | College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage D. Gale, L. S. Shapley · American Mathematical Monthly | 1962 | 5,986 |
| 5 | Prediction of goal-directed behavior: Attitudes, intentions, and perceived behavioral control Icek Ajzen, Thomas J. Madden · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | Sep 1986 | 5,553 |
| 6 | Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data—or tears: An application to educational enrollments in states of India Deon Filmer, Lant H. Pritchett · Demography | Feb 2001 | 5,262 |
| 7 | What Makes Professional Development Effective? Results From a National Sample of Teachers Michael S. Garet, Andrew C. Porter, Laura M. Desimone et al. · American Educational Research Journal | 2001 | 5,053 |
| 8 | Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation Guido W. Imbens, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge · Journal of Economic Literature | Mar 2009 | 5,014 |
| 9 | Propensity Score-Matching Methods for Nonexperimental Causal Studies Rajeev Dehejia, Sadek Wahba · The Review of Economics and Statistics | Feb 2002 | 4,981 |
| 10 | A threat in the air: How stereotypes shape intellectual identity and performance. Claude M. Steele · American Psychologist | 1997 | 4,776 |
| 11 | Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analytic Review of Research Selcuk R. Sirin · Review of Educational Research | Sep 2005 | 4,713 |
| 12 | Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement Steven G. Rivkin, Eric Alan Hanushek, John F. Kain · Econometrica | 4 Feb 2005 | 4,426 |
| 13 | Teacher Efficacy: Its Meaning and Measure Megan Tschannen‐Moran, Anita Woolfolk Hoy, Wayne K. Hoy · Review of Educational Research | Jun 1998 | 4,330 |
| 14 | Regression discontinuity designs: A guide to practice Guido W. Imbens, Thomas Lemieux · Journal of Econometrics | 25 May 2007 | 3,838 |
| 15 | Implicit Theories of Intelligence Predict Achievement Across an Adolescent Transition: A Longitudinal Study and an Intervention Lisa S. Blackwell, Kali H. Trzesniewski, Carol Sorich Dweck · Child Development | 2007 | 3,804 |
| 16 | Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools Joseph G. Altonji, Todd E. Elder, Christopher R. Taber · Journal of Political Economy | Feb 2005 | 3,801 |
| 17 | Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable is Weak John Bound, David A. Jaeger, Regina M. Baker · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Jun 1995 | 3,733 |
| 18 | Eta squared and partial eta squared as measures of effect size in educational research John T. E. Richardson · Educational Research Review | 2011 | 3,494 |
| 19 | Black students' school success: Coping with the ?burden of ?acting white?? Signithia Fordham, John U. Ogbu · The Urban Review | 1986 | 3,349 |
| 20 | A Spatial Model of Effectiveness Criteria: Towards a Competing Values Approach to Organizational Analysis Robert E. Quinn, John Rohrbaugh · Management Science | Mar 1983 | 3,348 |
| 21 | Teacher Turnover and Teacher Shortages: An Organizational Analysis Richard M. Ingersoll · American Educational Research Journal | 2001 | 2,985 |
| 22 | Where is the land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States * Raj G. Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline et al. · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | 14 Sep 2014 | 2,976 |
| 23 | Effects of Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching on Student Achievement Heather C. Hill, Brian Rowan, Deborah Loewenberg Ball · American Educational Research Journal | 2005 | 2,820 |
| 24 | The Influence of Parent Education and Family Income on Child Achievement: The Indirect Role of Parental Expectations and the Home Environment. Pamela E. Davis-Kean · Journal of Family Psychology | Jun 2005 | 2,480 |
| 25 | Multiple Inference and Gender Differences in the Effects of Early Intervention: A Reevaluation of the Abecedarian, Perry Preschool, and Early Training Projects Michael Anderson · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Dec 2008 | 2,439 |
| 26 | Inverting the Classroom: A Gateway to Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment Maureen J. Lage, Glenn J. Platt, Michael Treglia · The Journal of Economic Education | 2000 | 2,438 |
| 27 | Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments Joshua D. Angrist, Alan B Krueger · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Nov 2001 | 2,412 |
| 28 | Development of a Short Acculturation Scale for Hispanics Gerardo Marín, Fabio Sabogal, Bárbara VanOss Marín et al. · Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences | Jun 1987 | 2,310 |
| 29 | Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform. Paul H. Mattingly, DAVID B. TYACK, Larry Cuban · Journal of American History | Jun 1996 | 2,292 |
| 30 | Teacher Quality and Student Achievement Linda Darling‐Hammond · Education Policy Analysis Archives | 2000 | 2,255 |
| 31 | The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings David Card · Handbook of labour economics | 1999 | 2,234 |
| 32 | Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator Guido W. Imbens, Kaushik Kalyanaraman · The Review of Economic Studies | 24 Nov 2011 | 2,229 |
| 33 | Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment Esther Duflo · American Economic Review | Sep 2001 | 1,963 |
| 34 | Student engagement with school: Critical conceptual and methodological issues of the construct James J. Appleton, Sandra L. Christenson, Michael J. Furlong · Psychology in the Schools | 3 Apr 2008 | 1,956 |
| 35 | Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations Steve E. Bruce, Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh et al. · British Journal of Sociology | Dec 1987 | 1,935 |
| 36 | What’s trending in difference-in-differences? A synthesis of the recent econometrics literature Jonathan P. Roth, Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna, Alyssa Bilinski et al. · Journal of Econometrics | 29 Apr 2023 | 1,932 |
| 37 | Peer Effects with Random Assignment: Results for Dartmouth Roommates Bruce Sacerdote · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | May 2001 | 1,863 |
| 38 | The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education Dirk Windhorst · Brock Education Journal | May 2011 | 1,847 |
| 39 | Effects of Public Opinion on Policy Benjamin I. Page, Robert Y. Shapiro · American Political Science Review | Mar 1983 | 1,811 |
| 40 | Randomized experiments from non-random selection in U.S. House elections David Stephen Lee · Journal of Econometrics | 25 May 2007 | 1,793 |
| 41 | Do Better Schools Matter? Parental Valuation of Elementary Education Sandra E. Black · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | May 1999 | 1,748 |
| 42 | The development of achievement task values: A theoretical analysis Allan Wigfield, Jacquelynne S. Eccles · Developmental Review | Sep 1992 | 1,726 |
| 43 | Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood Raj G. Chetty, John Norton Friedman, Jonah E. Rockoff · American Economic Review | 28 Aug 2014 | 1,721 |
| 44 | Research and Practice of Student Retention: What Next? Vincent Tinto · Journal of College Student Retention Research Theory & Practice | May 2006 | 1,711 |
| 45 | Unpacking Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Conceptualizing and Measuring Teachers' Topic-Specific Knowledge of Students Heather C. Hill, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, S. Schilling · Journal for Research in Mathematics Education | Jul 2008 | 1,681 |
| 46 | Effectively Maintained Inequality: Education Transitions, Track Mobility, and Social Background Effects Samuel R. Lucas · American Journal of Sociology | May 2001 | 1,675 |
| 47 | School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Tayfun Sönmez · American Economic Review | May 2003 | 1,655 |
| 48 | Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes James J. Heckman, Rodrigo R. Pinto, Peter A. Savelyev · American Economic Review | Oct 2013 | 1,649 |
| 49 | Cross-national patterns of gender differences in mathematics: A meta-analysis. Nicole Meredith Else-Quest, Janet Shibley Hyde, Marcia C. Linn · Psychological Bulletin | 2010 | 1,637 |
| 50 | Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation Flávio Cunha, James J. Heckman, Susanne M. Schennach · Econometrica | 2010 | 1,612 |
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