David N Figlio
Biographic Data
| ID | 1190104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David N Figlio |
| GIVEN NAMES | David N |
| FAMILY NAME | Figlio |
| SIGNATURE | FIGLIO D N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
School Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education Identification
We use linked birth and education records from Florida to investigate how the identification of childhood disabilities varies by race and school racial composition. Using a series of decompositions, we find that black and Hispanic students are identified with disabilities at lower rates than are observationally similar white students. Black and Hispanic students are overidentified in schools with relatively small shares of minorities and substant…
Birth Order and Delinquency: Evidence from Denmark and Florida
Little is known about the role birth order plays in delinquency and adult crime outcomes that carry significant externalities. We use rich data sets from Denmark and Florida to examine these outcomes and explore potential mechanisms. Despite large environmental differences between the areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, secondborn boys are 20%–40% more likely to be disciplined in school and enter t…
Sibling Spillovers
It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family. Using administrative data on children from both Florida and Denmark, the paper examines the effects of having a disabled younger sibling. To address the identification challenge, the paper compares the differential effects for first- and second-born children in three-plus-child families, taking advantage of the fact that birth order influences the amount of time that a child …
Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers
This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern University to investigate the relative effects of tenure track/tenured versus contingent faculty on student learning. We focus on classes taken during a student’s first term at Northwestern and employ an identification strategy in which we control for both student-level fixed effects and next-class-taken fixed effects to measure the degre…
Information Shocks and the Take-Up of Social Programs: Information Shocks and the Take-Up of Social Programs
providing us with birth records and program participation data. We appreciate the helpful suggestions of colleagues and seminar participants at Duke University, Institut Sciences Po
Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower poverty schools
Boys Named Sue: Disruptive Children and Their Peers
This article proposes an unusual identification strategy to estimate the effects of disruptive students on peer behavior and academic outcomes. Because boys with names most commonly given to girls may be more prone to misbehavior as they get older, they may become differentially disruptive in school. In elementary school there is no relationship between names and boys' behavior, but on transition to middle school, a large gap emerges in behavior …
What's in a Grade? School Report Cards and the Housing Market
This paper investigates whether the housing market responds to the information incorporated in state-administered school grades. We study whether school grades affect families' residential locations and house prices. Using detailed data on repeated sales of individual residential properties in the state of Florida, we find evidence that there is an independent effect of these grades on house prices and residential location, above and beyond the e…
Political economy of the inequality in school spending
School Choice and the Distributional Effects of Ability Tracking: Does Separation Increase Inequality
Can Public Schools Buy Better-Qualified Teachers
Since the early 1980s, real teacher salaries in U.S. public schools have increased considerably faster than salaries of other Americans with similar levels of education and training. Providing an important impetus for this development were claims that increased salaries would allow the recruitment of better-qualified teachers. This analysis, which uses panel data on new teachers in 188 public school districts that changed their salaries between 1…
Can Public Policy Affect Private School Cream Skimming
The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Local Communities
Political Shirking, Opponent Quality, and Electoral Support
Do States Play Welfare Games
Bank Consolidations and Minority Neighborhoods
The Effect of Drinking Age Laws and Alcohol-Related Crashes: Time-Series Evidence from Wisconsin
The imposition of a national 21-year minimum drinking age has sparked considerable controversy in recent years. Critics have contended that the perceived “successes” of the increased drinking age are actually due to underlying trends toward fewer alcohol-related crashes among teenagers, and would have occurred in the absence of an increased drinking age. I use monthly Wisconsin time-series data from 1976 to 1993 to estimate the effects of increas…
Do States Play Welfare Games
School Choice and the Distributional Effects of Ability Tracking: Does Separation Increase Inequality
Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower poverty schools
Can Public Policy Affect Private School Cream Skimming
Sibling Spillovers
It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family. Using administrative data on children from both Florida and Denmark, the paper examines the effects of having a disabled younger sibling. To address the identification challenge, the paper compares the differential effects for first- and second-born children in three-plus-child families, taking advantage of the fact that birth order influences the amount of time that a child …
Can Public Schools Buy Better-Qualified Teachers
Since the early 1980s, real teacher salaries in U.S. public schools have increased considerably faster than salaries of other Americans with similar levels of education and training. Providing an important impetus for this development were claims that increased salaries would allow the recruitment of better-qualified teachers. This analysis, which uses panel data on new teachers in 188 public school districts that changed their salaries between 1…
Political Shirking, Opponent Quality, and Electoral Support
The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Local Communities
Information Shocks and the Take-Up of Social Programs: Information Shocks and the Take-Up of Social Programs
providing us with birth records and program participation data. We appreciate the helpful suggestions of colleagues and seminar participants at Duke University, Institut Sciences Po
Bank Consolidations and Minority Neighborhoods
Political economy of the inequality in school spending
The Effect of Drinking Age Laws and Alcohol-Related Crashes: Time-Series Evidence from Wisconsin
The imposition of a national 21-year minimum drinking age has sparked considerable controversy in recent years. Critics have contended that the perceived “successes” of the increased drinking age are actually due to underlying trends toward fewer alcohol-related crashes among teenagers, and would have occurred in the absence of an increased drinking age. I use monthly Wisconsin time-series data from 1976 to 1993 to estimate the effects of increas…
The Effect of Drinking Age Laws and Alcohol-Related Crashes: Time-Series Evidence from Wisconsin
The imposition of a national 21-year minimum drinking age has sparked considerable controversy in recent years. Critics have contended that the perceived “successes” of the increased drinking age are actually due to underlying trends toward fewer alcohol-related crashes among teenagers, and would have occurred in the absence of an increased drinking age. I use monthly Wisconsin time-series data from 1976 to 1993 to estimate the effects of increas…
Do States Play Welfare Games
Bank Consolidations and Minority Neighborhoods
The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Local Communities
Political Shirking, Opponent Quality, and Electoral Support
Can Public Policy Affect Private School Cream Skimming
School Choice and the Distributional Effects of Ability Tracking: Does Separation Increase Inequality
Can Public Schools Buy Better-Qualified Teachers
Since the early 1980s, real teacher salaries in U.S. public schools have increased considerably faster than salaries of other Americans with similar levels of education and training. Providing an important impetus for this development were claims that increased salaries would allow the recruitment of better-qualified teachers. This analysis, which uses panel data on new teachers in 188 public school districts that changed their salaries between 1…
What's in a Grade? School Report Cards and the Housing Market
This paper investigates whether the housing market responds to the information incorporated in state-administered school grades. We study whether school grades affect families' residential locations and house prices. Using detailed data on repeated sales of individual residential properties in the state of Florida, we find evidence that there is an independent effect of these grades on house prices and residential location, above and beyond the e…
Political economy of the inequality in school spending
Boys Named Sue: Disruptive Children and Their Peers
This article proposes an unusual identification strategy to estimate the effects of disruptive students on peer behavior and academic outcomes. Because boys with names most commonly given to girls may be more prone to misbehavior as they get older, they may become differentially disruptive in school. In elementary school there is no relationship between names and boys' behavior, but on transition to middle school, a large gap emerges in behavior …
Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower poverty schools
Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers
This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern University to investigate the relative effects of tenure track/tenured versus contingent faculty on student learning. We focus on classes taken during a student’s first term at Northwestern and employ an identification strategy in which we control for both student-level fixed effects and next-class-taken fixed effects to measure the degre…
Information Shocks and the Take-Up of Social Programs: Information Shocks and the Take-Up of Social Programs
providing us with birth records and program participation data. We appreciate the helpful suggestions of colleagues and seminar participants at Duke University, Institut Sciences Po
Birth Order and Delinquency: Evidence from Denmark and Florida
Little is known about the role birth order plays in delinquency and adult crime outcomes that carry significant externalities. We use rich data sets from Denmark and Florida to examine these outcomes and explore potential mechanisms. Despite large environmental differences between the areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, secondborn boys are 20%–40% more likely to be disciplined in school and enter t…
Sibling Spillovers
It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family. Using administrative data on children from both Florida and Denmark, the paper examines the effects of having a disabled younger sibling. To address the identification challenge, the paper compares the differential effects for first- and second-born children in three-plus-child families, taking advantage of the fact that birth order influences the amount of time that a child …
School Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education Identification
We use linked birth and education records from Florida to investigate how the identification of childhood disabilities varies by race and school racial composition. Using a series of decompositions, we find that black and Hispanic students are identified with disabilities at lower rates than are observationally similar white students. Black and Hispanic students are overidentified in schools with relatively small shares of minorities and substant…
Economics (14 works) · School Choice and Performance (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)