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.
Working Papers
Ability Grouping and Academic Inequality: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago, under submission (2008)
In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools after fifth grade based on...
Student Demographics, Teacher Sorting and Teacher Quality: Evidence from the End of School Desegration, under revision (2008)
The reshuffling of students due to the end of student busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg provides a...
Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: The Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers (with Elias Bruegmann) (2008)
Using student examination data linked to longitudinal teacher personnel data we document that a teacher’s...
A Little Now for a Lot Later: A Look at a Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program, under submission (2007)
I analyze a program that was implemented in schools serving underprivileged populations in Texas that...
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 Pope, and Mridula Raman), NBER Working Paper No. 12029 (2006)
This paper evaluates the first year of Harvard's Financial Aid Initiative, which increased aid and...