Rebecca Unterman

Biographic Data

ID6369510
NAMERebecca Unterman
GIVEN NAMESRebecca
FAMILY NAMEUnterman
SIGNATUREUNTERMAN R
AFFILIATIONSMDRC
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS12
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • The Kindergarten Hotspot

    Open AccessChristina Weiland, Rebecca Unterman et al.ARTICLEChild Development2021

    Preschool improves children’s kindergarten readiness, but the cognitive outcomes of preschool enrollees and nonenrollees tend to converge partially or fully in elementary school. In older programs, most of this convergence occurs in kindergarten (Li et al., 2016), but evidence from today’s programs is sparse. Using data on 4,971 children who applied to the Boston Public School Prekindergarten program and a quasi-experimental approach, we examine …

  • The Effects of Enrolling in Oversubscribed Prekindergarten Programs Through Third Grade

    Open AccessChristina Weiland, Rebecca Unterman et al.ARTICLEChild Development2020

    This study leverages naturally occurring lotteries for oversubscribed Boston Public Schools prekindergarten program sites between 2007 and 2011, for 3,182 children (M = 4.5 years old) to estimate the impacts of winning a first choice lottery and enrolling in Boston prekindergarten versus losing a first choice lottery and not enrolling on children’s enrollment and persistence in district schools, grade retention, special education placement, and t…

  • Lessons from New York City's Small Schools of Choice about High School Features that Promote Graduation for Disadvantaged Students

    Open AccessHoward S Bloom, Rebecca Unterman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…2020Cited by: 1References: 6

    The present paper uses a rich dataset based on naturally‐occurring lotteries for 68 new small non‐selective high schools in New York City, which we refer to as small schools of choice (SSCs), to address two related questions: (1) What high school features are promising levers for increasing graduation rates for disadvantaged students? and (2) What high school features helped to produce SSCs’ positive impacts on graduation rates? Our findings prov…

  • The little kids down the hall

    Open AccessShana E Rochester, Christina Weiland et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2019References: 10

  • Can Small High Schools of Choice Improve Educational Prospects for Disadvantaged Students

    Open AccessHoward S Bloom, Rebecca UntermanARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…2014Cited by: 11References: 1

    This paper provides rigorous evidence (for 12, 130 participants in a series of naturally occurring randomized lotteries) that a large‐scale high school reform initiative (New York City's creation of 100+ small high schools of choice between 2002 and 2008) can markedly and consistently increase high school graduation rates (by 9.5 percentage points overall and for many different student subgroups) for a large population of educationally and econom…