Thomas Kane (economist)

Thomas Kane is an economist and Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has made important contributions to the concept of education policy, including policies pertaining to student assessment, teacher quality and financial aid for college.

elected Publications

What Does Certification Tell Us about Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City" (with J.E. Rockoff and D.O. Staiger) (2006)

“Economic Outcomes and the Decision to Vote: The Effect of Randomized School Admissions on Voter Participation” NBER Working Paper No. 11794 (with J.S. Hastings, D.O. Staiger, and J. Weinstein) (2005)

“Parental Preferences and School Competition: Evidence from a Public School Choice Program” NBER Working Paper No. 11805 (with J.S. Hastings and D.O. Staiger) (2005)

“Evaluating the Impact of the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 10658 (2004)

“The Long Road to Race-Blindness” in Science (2003)

“The Promise and Pitfalls of Using Imprecise School Accountability Measures” (with D.O. Staiger) in Journal of Economic Perspectives (2002)

“Volatility in School Test Scores: Implications for Test-Based Accountability Systems” (with D.O. Staiger) in Brookings Papers on Education Policy (ed. by D. Ravitch) (2002)

“The Community College: Training Students at the Margin Between College and Work” (with C.E. Rouse) in Journal of Economic Perspectives (1999)

"Teen Motherhood and Abortion Access" (with D. Staiger) in Quarterly Journal of Economics (1996)

"College Attendance By Blacks Since 1970: The Role of College Cost, Family Background and the Returns to Education" in Journal of Political Economy (1994)

References

[http://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty_research/profiles/profile.shtml?vperson_id=71512Thomas Kane's Harvard University Faculty Webpage]