An increasing emphasis on principals as key to school improvement has contributed to efforts to elevate principal effectiveness that have taken...
Steven Rivkin
Senior Researcher
Professor of Economics
Steven G. Rivkin is Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Economics at University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also Associate Director of Research with the Texas Schools Project at the University of Texas at Dallas, Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a part of the CALDER Texas team. He was also a post-doctoral fellow in the NSF urban poverty program at Northwestern University.
Dr. Rivkin’s main areas of interest are the economics and sociology of education, where he has written on a wide range of issues including teacher quality and labor markets, school desegregation, class size, special education, charter schools, student mobility, and school spending.
He has authored and co-authored numerous publications on factors related to student outcomes, including two forthcoming papers - one in the Review of Economics and Statistics on student absences and one in the Journal of Human Resources on teacher quality-class size tradeoffs. A recent CALDER brief by Dr. Rivkin on value-added measures can be found under the publications section of the site. Dr. Rivkin received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Related Publications
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It is widely believed that teacher turnover adversely affects the quality of instruction in urban schools serving predominantly disadvantaged...
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Studies of the charter sector typically compare charters and traditional public schools at a point in time. These comparisons are potentially...
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Search theory suggests early career job changes lead to better matches that benefit both workers and firms, but this may not hold true in teacher...
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Much has been written about the importance of school leadership, but there is surprisingly little systematic evidence on this topic. This paper...
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Although much has been written about the importance of leadership in the determination of organizational success, there is little quantitative...
Area of Expertise
- School Choice
- School Desegregation
- Special Education
- Student Mobility
- Teacher Labor Markets
- Teacher Quality
Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Head of Department of Economics
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan UH 725 M/C144
Chicago, IL 60607
sgrivkin@uic.edu