Lucy C Sorensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4387215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy C Sorensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy C |
| FAMILY NAME | Sorensen |
| SIGNATURE | SORENSEN L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4111-1236 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On the margin: Who receives a juvenile referral in school and what effect does it have
Involvement with the juvenile justice system carries immense consequences both to detained youth and to society more broadly. Extant research on the “school‐to‐prison pipeline” has often focused on school disciplinary practices such as suspension with less attention on understanding the impact of school referrals to the juvenile justice system on students. Using novel administrative data from North Carolina, we link 3 years of individual educatio…
Truth and illusion: Can a Transparency Reform Contribute to Accountable Taxing Behaviour
The thin blue line in schools: New evidence on school‐based policing across the U.S
U.S. public school students increasingly attend schools with sworn law enforcement officers present. Yet little is known about how these school resource officers (SROs) affect school environments or student outcomes. Our study uses a fuzzy regression discontinuity (RD) design with national school‐level data from 2014 to 2018 to estimate the impacts of SRO placement. We construct this discontinuity based on the application scores for federal schoo…
Illusory effects of performance management: The case of contracts for excellence in New York school districts
Performance Management systems are ubiquitous in contemporary public management. However, evidence of their performance effects is inconclusive. The Contracts for Excellence (C4E) reform required 58 New York State public school districts to develop individualized reform plans and report compliance and performance measures to authorities. This study evaluates C4E’s impact on organizational performance using a difference-in-differences approach. Fi…
Empowering the frontline: Internal and external organizational antecedents of teacher empowerment
Although frontline empowerment is central to managerial reform, few scholars have explored the conditions which effectively promote empowerment. We argue that empowerment is linked to inherent organizational features. To investigate this, we consider six sub-dimensions of empowerment: a) decision-making, b) professional growth, c) supportive culture, d) self-efficacy, e) work autonomy, and f) use of performance information. Findings from a panel …
Sorting it Out: The Effects of Charter Expansion on Teacher and Student Composition at Traditional Public Schools
The Hidden Costs of Teacher Turnover
High teacher turnover imposes numerous burdens on the schools and districts from which teachers depart. Some of these burdens are explicit and take the form of recruiting, hiring, and training costs. Others are more hidden and take the form of changes to the composition and quality of the teaching staff. This study focuses on the latter. We ask how schools respond to spells of high teacher turnover and assess organizational and human capital effe…
Protecting the Health of Vulnerable Children and Adolescents During Covid-19–Related K-12 School Closures in the US
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic prompted widespread closures of kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) schools, affecting approximately 000 schools">124 000 schools and 55.1 million students. Without a vaccine, school closures were part of a comprehensive public health strategy to curb viral transmission, although their effectiveness is debatable. 1 As COVID-19 evidence evolves, there is increased awareness of the disproportionat…
Locking up my generation: Cohort differences in prison spells over the life course
Crime rates have dropped substantially in the United States, but incarceration rates have remained high. The standard explanation for the lasting trend in incarceration is that the policy choices from the 1980s and 1990s were part of a secular increase in punitiveness that has kept rates of incarceration high. Our study highlights a heretofore overlooked perspective: that the crime–punishment wave in the 1980s and 1990s created cohort differences…
Lead exposure and academic achievement: Evidence from childhood lead poisoning prevention efforts
Returns to Teacher Experience: Student Achievement and Motivation in Middle School
We use rich longitudinally matched administrative data on students and teachers in North Carolina to examine the patterns of differential effectiveness by teachers’ years of experience. The paper contributes to the literature by focusing on middle school teachers and by extending the analysis to student outcomes beyond test scores. Once we control statistically for the quality of individual teachers using teacher fixed effects, we find large retu…
Locking up my generation: Cohort differences in prison spells over the life course
Crime rates have dropped substantially in the United States, but incarceration rates have remained high. The standard explanation for the lasting trend in incarceration is that the policy choices from the 1980s and 1990s were part of a secular increase in punitiveness that has kept rates of incarceration high. Our study highlights a heretofore overlooked perspective: that the crime–punishment wave in the 1980s and 1990s created cohort differences…
Lead exposure and academic achievement: Evidence from childhood lead poisoning prevention efforts
The thin blue line in schools: New evidence on school‐based policing across the U.S
U.S. public school students increasingly attend schools with sworn law enforcement officers present. Yet little is known about how these school resource officers (SROs) affect school environments or student outcomes. Our study uses a fuzzy regression discontinuity (RD) design with national school‐level data from 2014 to 2018 to estimate the impacts of SRO placement. We construct this discontinuity based on the application scores for federal schoo…
On the margin: Who receives a juvenile referral in school and what effect does it have
Involvement with the juvenile justice system carries immense consequences both to detained youth and to society more broadly. Extant research on the “school‐to‐prison pipeline” has often focused on school disciplinary practices such as suspension with less attention on understanding the impact of school referrals to the juvenile justice system on students. Using novel administrative data from North Carolina, we link 3 years of individual educatio…
Returns to Teacher Experience: Student Achievement and Motivation in Middle School
We use rich longitudinally matched administrative data on students and teachers in North Carolina to examine the patterns of differential effectiveness by teachers’ years of experience. The paper contributes to the literature by focusing on middle school teachers and by extending the analysis to student outcomes beyond test scores. Once we control statistically for the quality of individual teachers using teacher fixed effects, we find large retu…
Lead exposure and academic achievement: Evidence from childhood lead poisoning prevention efforts
The Hidden Costs of Teacher Turnover
High teacher turnover imposes numerous burdens on the schools and districts from which teachers depart. Some of these burdens are explicit and take the form of recruiting, hiring, and training costs. Others are more hidden and take the form of changes to the composition and quality of the teaching staff. This study focuses on the latter. We ask how schools respond to spells of high teacher turnover and assess organizational and human capital effe…
Protecting the Health of Vulnerable Children and Adolescents During Covid-19–Related K-12 School Closures in the US
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic prompted widespread closures of kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) schools, affecting approximately 000 schools">124 000 schools and 55.1 million students. Without a vaccine, school closures were part of a comprehensive public health strategy to curb viral transmission, although their effectiveness is debatable. 1 As COVID-19 evidence evolves, there is increased awareness of the disproportionat…
Locking up my generation: Cohort differences in prison spells over the life course
Crime rates have dropped substantially in the United States, but incarceration rates have remained high. The standard explanation for the lasting trend in incarceration is that the policy choices from the 1980s and 1990s were part of a secular increase in punitiveness that has kept rates of incarceration high. Our study highlights a heretofore overlooked perspective: that the crime–punishment wave in the 1980s and 1990s created cohort differences…
Sorting it Out: The Effects of Charter Expansion on Teacher and Student Composition at Traditional Public Schools
Illusory effects of performance management: The case of contracts for excellence in New York school districts
Performance Management systems are ubiquitous in contemporary public management. However, evidence of their performance effects is inconclusive. The Contracts for Excellence (C4E) reform required 58 New York State public school districts to develop individualized reform plans and report compliance and performance measures to authorities. This study evaluates C4E’s impact on organizational performance using a difference-in-differences approach. Fi…
Empowering the frontline: Internal and external organizational antecedents of teacher empowerment
Although frontline empowerment is central to managerial reform, few scholars have explored the conditions which effectively promote empowerment. We argue that empowerment is linked to inherent organizational features. To investigate this, we consider six sub-dimensions of empowerment: a) decision-making, b) professional growth, c) supportive culture, d) self-efficacy, e) work autonomy, and f) use of performance information. Findings from a panel …
The thin blue line in schools: New evidence on school‐based policing across the U.S
U.S. public school students increasingly attend schools with sworn law enforcement officers present. Yet little is known about how these school resource officers (SROs) affect school environments or student outcomes. Our study uses a fuzzy regression discontinuity (RD) design with national school‐level data from 2014 to 2018 to estimate the impacts of SRO placement. We construct this discontinuity based on the application scores for federal schoo…
On the margin: Who receives a juvenile referral in school and what effect does it have
Involvement with the juvenile justice system carries immense consequences both to detained youth and to society more broadly. Extant research on the “school‐to‐prison pipeline” has often focused on school disciplinary practices such as suspension with less attention on understanding the impact of school referrals to the juvenile justice system on students. Using novel administrative data from North Carolina, we link 3 years of individual educatio…
Truth and illusion: Can a Transparency Reform Contribute to Accountable Taxing Behaviour
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