Kirabo Jackson, Assistant Professor in the Labor Economics Department, ILR School, Cornell University. Kirabo received his PhD from Harvard University in the Department of Economics. His research interests include labor economics, public finance, economics of education, development, and applied econometrics.
Published and Forthcoming Articles
A Little Now for a Lot Later: A Look at a Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program, The Journal of Human Resources (2010)
The Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program pays both students and teachers for passing grades on...
Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: The Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers (with Elias Bruegmann), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2010)
Using student examination data linked to longitudinal teacher personnel data, we document that a teacher’s...
Student Demographics, Teacher Sorting, and Teacher Quality: Evidence From the End of School Desegregation, The Journal of Labor Economics (2009)
The reshuffling of students due to the end of student busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg provides a...
Cash for Test Scores: The impact of the Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program, Education Next (2008)
Working Papers
A Stitch in Time: Evaluating the Effects of an AP Incentive Program on College Outcomes (2009)
I analyze the longer-run effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade...
One for the Road: Public Transportation, Alcohol Consumption, and Intoxicated Driving (with Emily G. Owens), (2009)
We exploit arguably exogenous train schedule changes in Washington DC to investigate the relationship between...
Peer Quality or School Quality?: Clean Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago (2009)
Using a subsample of schools in Trinidad and Tobago where students cannot self-select to schools...
Ability-Grouping and Academic Inequality: Evidence From Rule-Based Student Assignments, (2008)
In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools after fifth grade based on...
Other Papers
Cost Should Be No Barrier: An Evaluation of the First Year of Harvard's Financial Aid Initiative (with Christopher Avery, Caroline Hoxby, Kaitlin Burek, Glenn Poppe, and Mridula Raman), Working Papers (2006)
This paper evaluates the first year of Harvard’s Financial Aid Initiative, which increased aid and...