Jack Buckley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4392479 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Buckley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Buckley |
| SIGNATURE | BUCKLEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Charter Schools: Hope or Hype?
Over the past several years, privately run, publicly funded charter schools have been sold to the American public as an education alternative promising better student achievement, greater parent satisfaction, and more vibrant school communities. But are charter schools delivering on their promise? Or are they just hype as critics contend, a costly experiment that is bleeding tax dollars from public schools? In this book, Jack Buckley and Mark Sch…
School choice in Chile: Is it class or the classroom
Skeptics of school choice are concerned that parents, especially low-income ones, will not choose schools based on sound academic reasoning. Many fear that, given choice, parents will sort themselves into different schools along class lines. How-ever, most surveys find that parents of all socioeconomic groups cite academic aspects as important when choosing a school. Moreover, almost no parents refer to the social composition of the student body.…
Are Charter School Parents More Satisfied With Schools? Evidence From Washington, DC
Parental satisfaction is critical to the politics of school reform. Many charter school advocates have no qualms in talking about a charter school movement, linking charter schools to a larger political effort to reform the system of education in the United States. If this movement is to have traction, parents who are satisfied with their children's schools represent a potential pool of supporters for further expansion of charter schools and choi…
Simple Bayesian Inference for Qualitative Political Research
In political science and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, there exists an unfortunate de facto divide between qualitative and quantitative empirical research. Sometimes this divide is purely a function of training and disciplinary socialization, but often it reflects a valid dispute over the philosophical foundations of inquiry. I argue here that the Bayesian approach to quantitative empirical modeling is an amenable sta…
Duration Dependence, Functional Form, and Corrected Standard Errors: Improving EHA Models of State Policy Diffusion
Discrete event history analysis (EHA) is the analytic tool of choice for many scholars of policy diffusion across American states. Unfortunately, the policy diffusion literature largely ignores several important specification issues for EHA models: duration dependence, choice of functional form, and the computation of standard errors corrected for temporal and spatial dependence. We use data from Berry and Berry's (1990) seminal study of state lo…
Estimation of Models with Beta-Distributed Dependent Variables: A Replication and Extension of Paolino's Study
This note replicates and extends Paolino's discussion (2001, Political Analysis 9:325–346) on the estimation of models with beta-distributed dependent variables in two ways. First, it introduces an easy-to-use program for estimating the model using Stata . Second, it presents a Bayesian estimator for beta variables based on Paolino's model. Results are compared to those in the original article
Shopping for Schools: How Do Marginal Consumers Gather Information About Schools
The theory of the marginal consumer holds that a subset of better informed consumers can create a globally more efficient market through their purchase decisions. In the market for education created by recent school choice initiatives, these “market mavens” are essential to the successful functioning of the choice system given the empirically documented low quantity and quality of information possessed by the average consumer. Little is known, ho…
What Do Parents Want From Schools? Evidence From the Internet
One of the most contentious policy areas in the United States today is the expansion of school choice. While many dimensions of parental-choice behavior have been analyzed, many of the most enduring questions center on the aspects of schools parents prefer and how these preferences will affect the socioeconomic and racial composition of schools. Using Internet-based methodological tools, we study parental preferences revealed through information …
Creating Choosers: Information, the Digital Divide, and the Propensity to Change Schools
In this article, the authors examine the extent to which electronic information about schools is an effective means of facilitating informed school choice. Using data gathered from a web site providing information to parents in Washington, D.C., the authors find that the digital divide is a potent barrier against widespread use of this information, despite its importance and potential to bridge the “content gap.” Among those parents who do use th…
Duration Dependence, Functional Form, and Corrected Standard Errors: Improving EHA Models of State Policy Diffusion
Discrete event history analysis (EHA) is the analytic tool of choice for many scholars of policy diffusion across American states. Unfortunately, the policy diffusion literature largely ignores several important specification issues for EHA models: duration dependence, choice of functional form, and the computation of standard errors corrected for temporal and spatial dependence. We use data from Berry and Berry's (1990) seminal study of state lo…
School choice in Chile: Is it class or the classroom
Skeptics of school choice are concerned that parents, especially low-income ones, will not choose schools based on sound academic reasoning. Many fear that, given choice, parents will sort themselves into different schools along class lines. How-ever, most surveys find that parents of all socioeconomic groups cite academic aspects as important when choosing a school. Moreover, almost no parents refer to the social composition of the student body.…
Shopping for Schools: How Do Marginal Consumers Gather Information About Schools
The theory of the marginal consumer holds that a subset of better informed consumers can create a globally more efficient market through their purchase decisions. In the market for education created by recent school choice initiatives, these “market mavens” are essential to the successful functioning of the choice system given the empirically documented low quantity and quality of information possessed by the average consumer. Little is known, ho…
Are Charter School Parents More Satisfied With Schools? Evidence From Washington, DC
Parental satisfaction is critical to the politics of school reform. Many charter school advocates have no qualms in talking about a charter school movement, linking charter schools to a larger political effort to reform the system of education in the United States. If this movement is to have traction, parents who are satisfied with their children's schools represent a potential pool of supporters for further expansion of charter schools and choi…
Simple Bayesian Inference for Qualitative Political Research
In political science and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, there exists an unfortunate de facto divide between qualitative and quantitative empirical research. Sometimes this divide is purely a function of training and disciplinary socialization, but often it reflects a valid dispute over the philosophical foundations of inquiry. I argue here that the Bayesian approach to quantitative empirical modeling is an amenable sta…
Estimation of Models with Beta-Distributed Dependent Variables: A Replication and Extension of Paolino's Study
This note replicates and extends Paolino's discussion (2001, Political Analysis 9:325–346) on the estimation of models with beta-distributed dependent variables in two ways. First, it introduces an easy-to-use program for estimating the model using Stata . Second, it presents a Bayesian estimator for beta variables based on Paolino's model. Results are compared to those in the original article
What Do Parents Want From Schools? Evidence From the Internet
One of the most contentious policy areas in the United States today is the expansion of school choice. While many dimensions of parental-choice behavior have been analyzed, many of the most enduring questions center on the aspects of schools parents prefer and how these preferences will affect the socioeconomic and racial composition of schools. Using Internet-based methodological tools, we study parental preferences revealed through information …
Creating Choosers: Information, the Digital Divide, and the Propensity to Change Schools
In this article, the authors examine the extent to which electronic information about schools is an effective means of facilitating informed school choice. Using data gathered from a web site providing information to parents in Washington, D.C., the authors find that the digital divide is a potent barrier against widespread use of this information, despite its importance and potential to bridge the “content gap.” Among those parents who do use th…
Estimation of Models with Beta-Distributed Dependent Variables: A Replication and Extension of Paolino's Study
This note replicates and extends Paolino's discussion (2001, Political Analysis 9:325–346) on the estimation of models with beta-distributed dependent variables in two ways. First, it introduces an easy-to-use program for estimating the model using Stata . Second, it presents a Bayesian estimator for beta variables based on Paolino's model. Results are compared to those in the original article
Shopping for Schools: How Do Marginal Consumers Gather Information About Schools
The theory of the marginal consumer holds that a subset of better informed consumers can create a globally more efficient market through their purchase decisions. In the market for education created by recent school choice initiatives, these “market mavens” are essential to the successful functioning of the choice system given the empirically documented low quantity and quality of information possessed by the average consumer. Little is known, ho…
Simple Bayesian Inference for Qualitative Political Research
In political science and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, there exists an unfortunate de facto divide between qualitative and quantitative empirical research. Sometimes this divide is purely a function of training and disciplinary socialization, but often it reflects a valid dispute over the philosophical foundations of inquiry. I argue here that the Bayesian approach to quantitative empirical modeling is an amenable sta…
Duration Dependence, Functional Form, and Corrected Standard Errors: Improving EHA Models of State Policy Diffusion
Discrete event history analysis (EHA) is the analytic tool of choice for many scholars of policy diffusion across American states. Unfortunately, the policy diffusion literature largely ignores several important specification issues for EHA models: duration dependence, choice of functional form, and the computation of standard errors corrected for temporal and spatial dependence. We use data from Berry and Berry's (1990) seminal study of state lo…
School choice in Chile: Is it class or the classroom
Skeptics of school choice are concerned that parents, especially low-income ones, will not choose schools based on sound academic reasoning. Many fear that, given choice, parents will sort themselves into different schools along class lines. How-ever, most surveys find that parents of all socioeconomic groups cite academic aspects as important when choosing a school. Moreover, almost no parents refer to the social composition of the student body.…
Are Charter School Parents More Satisfied With Schools? Evidence From Washington, DC
Parental satisfaction is critical to the politics of school reform. Many charter school advocates have no qualms in talking about a charter school movement, linking charter schools to a larger political effort to reform the system of education in the United States. If this movement is to have traction, parents who are satisfied with their children's schools represent a potential pool of supporters for further expansion of charter schools and choi…
Charter Schools: Hope or Hype?
Over the past several years, privately run, publicly funded charter schools have been sold to the American public as an education alternative promising better student achievement, greater parent satisfaction, and more vibrant school communities. But are charter schools delivering on their promise? Or are they just hype as critics contend, a costly experiment that is bleeding tax dollars from public schools? In this book, Jack Buckley and Mark Sch…
School Choice and Performance (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (4 works) · School choice (4 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)