Jonah Rockoff
Professor of Business at Columbia Business School
Biography
Columbia Business School
Biography
Jonah E. Rockoff is a Professor of Business at the Columbia Graduate School of Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Rockoff's interests center on the finance and management of public schools. His most recent research focuses on systems for hiring new teachers, the effects of No Child Left Behind on students and schools, the impact of removing school desegregation orders, and how primary school teachers affect students' outcomes in early adulthood. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in Economics from Amherst College.
Teaching
Spring 2018
Modern Econometrics For Business (MBA)
Fall 2017
Spring 2016
Fall 2015
Fall 2014
Fall 2013
Fall 2012
Columbia Caseworks cases
Relevant Costs for Making Production Decisions: Was General Motors Making the Correct Choice in Producing High Volumes of Autos? (2012)
Coauthor(s): Trevor Harris, Jonah Rockoff, Nachum Sicherman, Catherine Thomas
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Walt Disney's Sale of ABC Radio: Structuring a Tax-Efficient Divestiture (2008)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff, Ira Weiss
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Research
Journal articles
Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind: Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States'' Implementation of NCLB In Educational Researcher (forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Elizabeth Davidson, Randall Reback, Jonah Rockoff, Heather Schwartz
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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: Reply to Rothstein In American Economic Review (2017)
Coauthor(s): Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah Rockoff
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Value-Added Modeling: A Review In Economics of Education Review (2015)
Coauthor(s): Cory Koedel, Kata Mihaly, Jonah Rockoff
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Teacher Effects and Teacher-Related Policies In Annual Review of Economics (2014)
Coauthor(s): C. Kirabo Jackson, Jonah Rockoff, Douglas Staiger
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Under Pressure: Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools Under No Child Left Behind In American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2014)
Coauthor(s): Randall Reback, Jonah Rockoff, Heather Schwartz
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Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools In American Economic Review (2012)
Coauthor(s): Thomas Kane, Jonah Rockoff, Douglas Staiger, Eric Taylor
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Worker Absence and Productivity: Evidence from Teaching In Journal of Labor Economics (2012)
Coauthor(s): Mariesa Herrmann, Jonah Rockoff
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Does Menstruation Explain Gender Gaps in Work Absenteeism? In Journal of Human Resources (2012)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff, Mariesa Herrmann
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Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One? In Education Finance and Policy (2011)
Coauthor(s): Brian Jacob, Thomas Kane, Jonah Rockoff, Douglas Staiger
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Stuck in the Middle: Impacts of Grade Configuration in Public Schools In Journal of Public Economics (2010)
Coauthor(s): Benjamin Lockwood, Jonah Rockoff
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Subjective and Objective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from New York City In Labour Economics (2010)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff, Cecilia Speroni
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Local Response to Fiscal Incentives in Heterogeneous Communities In Journal of Urban Economics (2010)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff
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Searching for Effective Teachers with Imperfect Information In Journal of Economic Perspectives (2010)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff, Douglas Staiger
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Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality In American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2010)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff, Lesley Turner
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Subjective and Objective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness In American Economic Review (2010)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff, Cecilia Speroni
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Field Experiments in Class Size from the Early Twentieth Century In Journal of Economic Perspectives (2009)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff
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Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values from Megan''s Laws In American Economic Review (2008)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff, Leigh Linden
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The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and Its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools In Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2008)
Coauthor(s): Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, Jonah Rockoff, James Wyckoff
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What Does Certification Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City In Economics of Education Review (2008)
Coauthor(s): Thomas Kane, Jonah Rockoff, Douglas Staiger
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The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence from Panel Data In American Economic Review (2004)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff
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Working papers
The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations In Working Paper 22165 (2017)
Coauthor(s): Thomas Dee, Will Dobbie, Brian Jacob, Jonah Rockoff
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Measuring the Impacts of the Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates (2014)
Coauthor(s): Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah Rockoff
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Measuring the Impacts of the Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood (2014)
Coauthor(s): Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah Rockoff
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Do Menstrual Problems Explain Gender Gaps in Absenteeism and Earnings? Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey (2013)
Coauthor(s): Mariesa Herrmann, Jonah Rockoff
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School Segregation, Educational Attainment and Crime: Evidence from the End of Busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg In Working Paper 18487 (2012)
Coauthor(s): Stephen Billings, David Deming, Jonah Rockoff
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The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood In Working Paper 17699 (2011)
Coauthor(s): Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah Rockoff
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School Principals and School Performance In CALDER Working Paper No. 38 (2009)
Coauthor(s): Damon Clark, Francisco Martorell, Jonah Rockoff
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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism, and the Earnings Gap: Comment (2009)
Coauthor(s): Mariesa Herrmann, Jonah Rockoff
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Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City (2008)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff
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Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior? (2008)
Coauthor(s): J. J. Prescott, Jonah Rockoff
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In The News
Media Mentions
How Teachers Are Taught
Magazine articles
Moving Mountains in New York City: Joel Klein''s Legacy by the Numbers In Education Week (2010)
Coauthor(s): James Liebman, Jonah Rockoff
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