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Jacob L. Vigdor, Professor of Public Policy and Economics

Jacob L. Vigdor
Contact Info:
Office Location:  176 Rubenstein Hall
Office Phone:  (919) 613-9226
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://jacob.vigdor.googlepages.com

Education:

PhD in EconomicsHarvard University1999
BS with Distinction in Policy AnalysisCornell University1994
Specialties:

Economics of Education
Public Finance
Research Interests:

Educational achievement; teacher labor markets; racial inequality; residential segregation; housing affordability; political economy; college admissions policies; immigration and migration

Curriculum Vitae
Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Weiwei Hu  
  • Sandra N. McCourt  
  • Erin Hye-Won Kim  
  • Sara T. Pilzer  
  • Dania V. Francis  
  • Weiwei Hu  
  • Alvin Murphy  
  • Omari Swinton  
  • Jane Cooley  
  • Natalie Goodpaster  
  • Shauna Saunders  
  • Cathleen McHugh  
  • Jingshu Wang  
  • Dan Hungerman  
  • Thomas Ahn  
Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. J.L. Vigdor, Measuring Immigrant Assimilation in the United States, Manhattan Institute Civic Report no. 53 (2008) [htm]  [abs]
  2. Cutler, D.M, E.L. Glaeser and J.L. Vigdor, The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 107 no. 3 (June, 1999), pp. 455-506
  3. J.L. Vigdor, Community Composition and Collective Action: Analyzing Initial Mail Response to the 2000 Census, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 86 no. 1 (February, 2004), pp. 303-312
  4. Clotfelter, C.T., H.F. Ladd, J.L. Vigdor and R.A. Aliaga, Do School Accountability Systems Make It More Difficult for Low Performing Schools to Attract and Retain High Quality Teachers?, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 23 no. 2 (Spring, 2004), pp. 251-271 (Reprinted in Modern Classics in the Economics of Education, C. Belfield, ed. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd..)
  5. J.L. Vigdor, Other People's Taxes: Nonresident Voters and Statewide Limitation of Local Government, Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 47 no. 2 (October, 2004), pp. 453-477
  6. J.L. Vigdor, Liquidity Constraints and Housing Prices: Theory and Evidence from the VA Mortgage Program, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 90 no. 8-9 (2006), pp. 1579-1600
  7. Clotfelter, C.T., H.F. Ladd and J.L. Vigdor, Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 41 no. 4 (Fall, 2006), pp. 778-820
  8. J.L. Vigdor, The New Promised Land: Black-White Convergence in the American South, 1960-2000 (March, 2006), National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper #12143


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