Jacob L Vigdor
Biographic Data
| ID | 1454899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob L Vigdor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob L |
| FAMILY NAME | Vigdor |
| SIGNATURE | VIGDOR J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 306 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Impact of a City-Level Minimum-Wage Policy on Supermarket Food Prices in Seattle-King County
Background : Many states and localities throughout the U.S. have adopted higher minimum wages. Higher labor costs among low-wage food system workers could result in higher food prices. Methods : Using a market basket of 106 foods, food prices were collected at affected chain supermarket stores in Seattle and same-chain unaffected stores in King County (n = 12 total, six per location). Prices were collected at 1 month pre- (March 2015) and 1-month…
Weighing and Measuring the Decline in Residential Segregation
New Destinations, New Trajectories? The Educational Progress of Hispanic Youth in North Carolina
Since 1990, Latin American immigrants to the United States have dispersed beyond traditional gateway regions to a number of "new destinations." Both theory and past empirical evidence provide mixed guidance as to whether the children of these immigrants are adversely affected by residing in a nontraditional destination. This study uses administrative public school data to study over 2,800 8- to 18-year-old Hispanic youth in one new destination, N…
Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects
We use data on statewide end-of-course tests in North Carolina to examine the relationship between teacher credentials and student achievement at the high school level. We find compelling evidence that teacher credentials, particularly licensure and certification, affects student achievement in systematic ways and that the magnitudes are large enough to be policy relevant. Our findings imply that the uneven distribution of teacher credentials by …
Is urban decay bad? Is urban revitalization bad too
The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8
Using data for North Carolina public school students in grades 3 to 8, we examine achievement gaps between white students and students from other racial and ethnic groups. We focus on cohorts of students who stay in the state's public schools for all six years. While the black-white gaps are sizable and robust, both Hispanic and Asian students tend to gain on whites as they progress in school. Beyond simple mean differences, we find that the raci…
Would higher salaries keep teachers in high-poverty schools? Evidence from a policy intervention in North Carolina
Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation
This paper uses decennial Census data to examine the residential integration of the foreign born in the United States between 1910 and 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in the first part of the century, but has been rising over the past few decades. Recent immigrants tend to hail from countries with greater cultural distinctions from U.S. natives, whether economic, racial, or linguistic. These factors explain much of the increase in segregatio…
When are ghettos bad? Lessons from immigrant segregation in the United States
The Economic Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept into Louisiana and New Orleans, a city built largely on land reclaimed from swamp, witnessed massive failures in its levees. Much of the city and its surrounding suburbs were inundated; those residents of the city who had not heeded warnings to flee the approaching storm were evacuated in its wake. In less than a week, the city's population declined from over 400,000 to near zero. Census Bureau estimate…
Teacher credentials and student achievement: Longitudinal analysis with student fixed effects
The negative impacts of starting middle school in sixth grade
Using administrative data on public school students in North Carolina, we find that sixth grade students attending middle schools are much more likely to be cited for discipline problems than those attending elementary school. That difference remains after adjusting for the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the students and their schools. Furthermore, the higher infraction rates recorded by sixth graders who are placed in middle sc…
Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness
Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd and Jacob L. Vigdor
Who teaches whom? Race and the distribution of novice teachers
Community Composition and Collective Action: Analyzing Initial Mail Response to the 2000 Census
This paper analyzes how community heterogeneity influences resident decisions to undertake actions generating public benefits. The decision in question is completing and returning the 2000 Census questionnaire, an action which secures a significant amount of federal grants for the community. The model developed to explain this action allows members of societal groups to differentially value public benefits that accrue to other group members. Raci…
Do school accountability systems make it more difficult for low‐performing schools to attract and retain high‐quality teachers
Administrative data from North Carolina are used to explore the extent to which that state's relatively sophisticated school‐based accountability system has exacerbated the challenges that schools serving low‐performing students face in retaining and attracting high‐quality teachers. Most clear are the adverse effects on retention rates, and hence on teacher turnover, in such schools. Less clear is the extent to which that higher turnover has tra…
Residential segregation and preference misalignment
Does Gentrification Harm the Poor
FOR SEVERAL DECADES, social scientists have tracked the fiscal health of American central cities with some degree of concern. Suburbanization, spawned by technological innovations, consumer preferences, and at least to some extent by government policy, has selectively pulled affluent households out of urban jurisdictions. 1 The leaders of these jurisdictions are left with the prospect of satisfying more concentrated demands for services with a dw…
Locations, Outcomes, and Selective Migration
Studies attempting to link locational attributes and individual outcomes often focus on children or young adults, under the presumption that their location was exogenously determined by their parents. This strategy is more difficult to justify if parents migrate selectively and tend to transmit their own characteristics to their children. This paper uses Census microdata to document a strong link between selective migration in one generation and …
The Pursuit of Opportunity: Explaining Selective Black Migration
The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto
This paper examines segregation in American cities from 1890 to 1990. We divide the century into three time periods. From 1890 to 1940, ghettos were born as blacks migrated to urban areas and cities developed vast expanses filled with nearly exclusively black housing. From 1940 to 1970, black migration continued and ghettos expanded. Since 1970, there has been a decline in segregation as blacks have moved to suburban areas and central cities have…
The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto
This paper examines segregation in American cities from 1890 to 1990. We divide the century into three time periods. From 1890 to 1940, ghettos were born as blacks migrated to urban areas and cities developed vast expanses filled with nearly exclusively black housing. From 1940 to 1970, black migration continued and ghettos expanded. Since 1970, there has been a decline in segregation as blacks have moved to suburban areas and central cities have…
When are ghettos bad? Lessons from immigrant segregation in the United States
Do school accountability systems make it more difficult for low‐performing schools to attract and retain high‐quality teachers
Administrative data from North Carolina are used to explore the extent to which that state's relatively sophisticated school‐based accountability system has exacerbated the challenges that schools serving low‐performing students face in retaining and attracting high‐quality teachers. Most clear are the adverse effects on retention rates, and hence on teacher turnover, in such schools. Less clear is the extent to which that higher turnover has tra…
The Economic Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept into Louisiana and New Orleans, a city built largely on land reclaimed from swamp, witnessed massive failures in its levees. Much of the city and its surrounding suburbs were inundated; those residents of the city who had not heeded warnings to flee the approaching storm were evacuated in its wake. In less than a week, the city's population declined from over 400,000 to near zero. Census Bureau estimate…
The negative impacts of starting middle school in sixth grade
Using administrative data on public school students in North Carolina, we find that sixth grade students attending middle schools are much more likely to be cited for discipline problems than those attending elementary school. That difference remains after adjusting for the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the students and their schools. Furthermore, the higher infraction rates recorded by sixth graders who are placed in middle sc…
The Pursuit of Opportunity: Explaining Selective Black Migration
Weighing and Measuring the Decline in Residential Segregation
New Destinations, New Trajectories? The Educational Progress of Hispanic Youth in North Carolina
Since 1990, Latin American immigrants to the United States have dispersed beyond traditional gateway regions to a number of "new destinations." Both theory and past empirical evidence provide mixed guidance as to whether the children of these immigrants are adversely affected by residing in a nontraditional destination. This study uses administrative public school data to study over 2,800 8- to 18-year-old Hispanic youth in one new destination, N…
Residential segregation and preference misalignment
Is urban decay bad? Is urban revitalization bad too
The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto
This paper examines segregation in American cities from 1890 to 1990. We divide the century into three time periods. From 1890 to 1940, ghettos were born as blacks migrated to urban areas and cities developed vast expanses filled with nearly exclusively black housing. From 1940 to 1970, black migration continued and ghettos expanded. Since 1970, there has been a decline in segregation as blacks have moved to suburban areas and central cities have…
Does Gentrification Harm the Poor
FOR SEVERAL DECADES, social scientists have tracked the fiscal health of American central cities with some degree of concern. Suburbanization, spawned by technological innovations, consumer preferences, and at least to some extent by government policy, has selectively pulled affluent households out of urban jurisdictions. 1 The leaders of these jurisdictions are left with the prospect of satisfying more concentrated demands for services with a dw…
Locations, Outcomes, and Selective Migration
Studies attempting to link locational attributes and individual outcomes often focus on children or young adults, under the presumption that their location was exogenously determined by their parents. This strategy is more difficult to justify if parents migrate selectively and tend to transmit their own characteristics to their children. This paper uses Census microdata to document a strong link between selective migration in one generation and …
The Pursuit of Opportunity: Explaining Selective Black Migration
Residential segregation and preference misalignment
Community Composition and Collective Action: Analyzing Initial Mail Response to the 2000 Census
This paper analyzes how community heterogeneity influences resident decisions to undertake actions generating public benefits. The decision in question is completing and returning the 2000 Census questionnaire, an action which secures a significant amount of federal grants for the community. The model developed to explain this action allows members of societal groups to differentially value public benefits that accrue to other group members. Raci…
Do school accountability systems make it more difficult for low‐performing schools to attract and retain high‐quality teachers
Administrative data from North Carolina are used to explore the extent to which that state's relatively sophisticated school‐based accountability system has exacerbated the challenges that schools serving low‐performing students face in retaining and attracting high‐quality teachers. Most clear are the adverse effects on retention rates, and hence on teacher turnover, in such schools. Less clear is the extent to which that higher turnover has tra…
Who teaches whom? Race and the distribution of novice teachers
Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness
Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd and Jacob L. Vigdor
Teacher credentials and student achievement: Longitudinal analysis with student fixed effects
The negative impacts of starting middle school in sixth grade
Using administrative data on public school students in North Carolina, we find that sixth grade students attending middle schools are much more likely to be cited for discipline problems than those attending elementary school. That difference remains after adjusting for the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the students and their schools. Furthermore, the higher infraction rates recorded by sixth graders who are placed in middle sc…
Would higher salaries keep teachers in high-poverty schools? Evidence from a policy intervention in North Carolina
Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation
This paper uses decennial Census data to examine the residential integration of the foreign born in the United States between 1910 and 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in the first part of the century, but has been rising over the past few decades. Recent immigrants tend to hail from countries with greater cultural distinctions from U.S. natives, whether economic, racial, or linguistic. These factors explain much of the increase in segregatio…
When are ghettos bad? Lessons from immigrant segregation in the United States
The Economic Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept into Louisiana and New Orleans, a city built largely on land reclaimed from swamp, witnessed massive failures in its levees. Much of the city and its surrounding suburbs were inundated; those residents of the city who had not heeded warnings to flee the approaching storm were evacuated in its wake. In less than a week, the city's population declined from over 400,000 to near zero. Census Bureau estimate…
The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8
Using data for North Carolina public school students in grades 3 to 8, we examine achievement gaps between white students and students from other racial and ethnic groups. We focus on cohorts of students who stay in the state's public schools for all six years. While the black-white gaps are sizable and robust, both Hispanic and Asian students tend to gain on whites as they progress in school. Beyond simple mean differences, we find that the raci…
Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects
We use data on statewide end-of-course tests in North Carolina to examine the relationship between teacher credentials and student achievement at the high school level. We find compelling evidence that teacher credentials, particularly licensure and certification, affects student achievement in systematic ways and that the magnitudes are large enough to be policy relevant. Our findings imply that the uneven distribution of teacher credentials by …
Is urban decay bad? Is urban revitalization bad too
New Destinations, New Trajectories? The Educational Progress of Hispanic Youth in North Carolina
Since 1990, Latin American immigrants to the United States have dispersed beyond traditional gateway regions to a number of "new destinations." Both theory and past empirical evidence provide mixed guidance as to whether the children of these immigrants are adversely affected by residing in a nontraditional destination. This study uses administrative public school data to study over 2,800 8- to 18-year-old Hispanic youth in one new destination, N…
Weighing and Measuring the Decline in Residential Segregation
The Impact of a City-Level Minimum-Wage Policy on Supermarket Food Prices in Seattle-King County
Background : Many states and localities throughout the U.S. have adopted higher minimum wages. Higher labor costs among low-wage food system workers could result in higher food prices. Methods : Using a market basket of 106 foods, food prices were collected at affected chain supermarket stores in Seattle and same-chain unaffected stores in King County (n = 12 total, six per location). Prices were collected at 1 month pre- (March 2015) and 1-month…
Economics (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Demographic economics (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (11 works) · Demography (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Population (10 works) · School Choice and Performance (10 works)