Jonah Rockoff
Senior Vice Dean for Curriculum and Programs
Dean's Office
Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility
Economics
B.A., Amherst College, 1997; Ph.D., Harvard, 2004.
Joined CBS in 2004
Office:
354
Kravis
Phone:
212-854-9799
E-mail:
[email protected]
Fax:
212-316-9219
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Jonah E. Rockoff is a Professor of Business at the Columbia Graduate School of Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Rockoff's interests center on the finance and management of public schools. His most recent research focuses on systems for hiring new teachers, the effects of No Child Left Behind on students and schools, the impact of removing school desegregation orders, and how primary school teachers affect students' outcomes in early adulthood. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in Economics from Amherst College.
Teaching
Spring 2020
Modern Econometrics For Business
(MBA)
Spring 2019
Modern Econometrics For Business
(MBA)
Spring 2018
Modern Econometrics For Business
(MBA)
Fall 2018
Columbia Caseworks cases
Relevant Costs for Making Production Decisions: Was General Motors Making the Correct Choice in Producing High Volumes of Autos?
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Trevor Harris, Jonah Rockoff, Nachum Sicherman, Catherine Thomas
New York City Teacher Incentive Program: Agreeing on a Plan
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Ann Bartel, Jonah Rockoff, Lesley Turner
Walt Disney's Sale of ABC Radio: Structuring a Tax-Efficient Divestiture
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff, Ira Weiss
Research
Journal articles
Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind: Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of NCLB
In Educational Researcher
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Elizabeth Davidson, Randall Reback, Jonah Rockoff, Heather Schwartz
Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: Reply to Rothstein
In American Economic Review
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah Rockoff
Value-Added Modeling: A Review
In Economics of Education Review
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Cory Koedel, Kata Mihaly, Jonah Rockoff
Teacher Effects and Teacher-Related Policies
In Annual Review of Economics
(2014)
Coauthor(s): C. Kirabo Jackson, Jonah Rockoff, Douglas Staiger
Under Pressure: Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools Under No Child Left Behind
In American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Randall Reback, Jonah Rockoff, Heather Schwartz
Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools
In American Economic Review
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Thomas Kane, Jonah Rockoff, Douglas Staiger, Eric Taylor
Worker Absence and Productivity: Evidence from Teaching
In Journal of Labor Economics
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Mariesa Herrmann, Jonah Rockoff
Does Menstruation Explain Gender Gaps in Work Absenteeism?
In Journal of Human Resources
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff, Mariesa Herrmann
Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One?
In Education Finance and Policy
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Brian Jacob, Thomas Kane, Jonah Rockoff, Douglas Staiger
Stuck in the Middle: Impacts of Grade Configuration in Public Schools
In Journal of Public Economics
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Benjamin Lockwood, Jonah Rockoff
Subjective and Objective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from New York City
In Labour Economics
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff, Cecilia Speroni
Local Response to Fiscal Incentives in Heterogeneous Communities
In Journal of Urban Economics
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff
Searching for Effective Teachers with Imperfect Information
In Journal of Economic Perspectives
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff, Douglas Staiger
Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality
In American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff, Lesley Turner
Subjective and Objective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness
In American Economic Review
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff, Cecilia Speroni
Field Experiments in Class Size from the Early Twentieth Century
In Journal of Economic Perspectives
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff
Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values from Megan's Laws
In American Economic Review
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff, Leigh Linden
The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and Its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools
In Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, Jonah Rockoff, James Wyckoff
What Does Certification Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City
In Economics of Education Review
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Thomas Kane, Jonah Rockoff, Douglas Staiger
The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence from Panel Data
In American Economic Review
(2004)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff
Working papers
The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations
In Working Paper 22165
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Thomas Dee, Will Dobbie, Brian Jacob, Jonah Rockoff
Measuring the Impacts of the Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah Rockoff
Measuring the Impacts of the Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah Rockoff
Do Menstrual Problems Explain Gender Gaps in Absenteeism and Earnings? Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Mariesa Herrmann, Jonah Rockoff
School Segregation, Educational Attainment and Crime: Evidence from the End of Busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg
In Working Paper 18487
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Stephen Billings, David Deming, Jonah Rockoff
The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
In Working Paper 17699
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Jonah Rockoff
School Principals and School Performance
In CALDER Working Paper No. 38
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Damon Clark, Francisco Martorell, Jonah Rockoff
Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism, and the Earnings Gap: Comment
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Mariesa Herrmann, Jonah Rockoff
Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Jonah Rockoff
Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?
(2008)
Coauthor(s): J. J. Prescott, Jonah Rockoff
In The Media
The New Child Tax Credit Could Lift More Than 5 Million Kids Out of Poverty. Can It Help Them Learn, Too?
Kellogg Alumni Call on School to Make STEM Retroactive
She Paid $68,000 to Do an MBA at Cambridge. Now She's Studying via Zoom in India
What Economists Think about Democrats' New Education Proposals
How Teachers Are Taught
Press Releases
Magazine articles
Moving Mountains in New York City: Joel Klein's Legacy by the Numbers
In Education Week
(2010)
Coauthor(s): James Liebman, Jonah Rockoff