Scott Andrew Imberman
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Economics), University of Maryland, 2007
Research - It's what I do. Click here to see the researcher who inspires me more than any other.
Publications
"Achievement and Behavior in Charter Schools: Drawing a More Complete Picture" (appendix) Sept. 9, 2008. The Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
Featured on washingtonpost.com (Oct 2, 2007) and in Education Week (Oct 9, 2007).
"Why are the DI Rolls Skyrocketing?" (with Mark Duggan), in Health at Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability among the Elderly edited by David Cutler and David Wise, University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Working Papers and Works in Progress
"Katrina's Children: Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees" (with Adriana Kugler and Bruce Sacerdote) NBER Working Paper 15291. August 19, 2009. Under review.
Featured in the Houston Chronicle (Sept. 12, 2009), San Antonio Express News (Sept. 12, 2009), Houston Business Journal (Sept. 11, 2009).
"Does it Pay to Get an A? School District Resource Allocations in Response to Accountability Rankings" (appendix) (with Steve Craig and Adam Purdue) October 5, 2009. Under review.
"The Effect of Charter Schools on Achievement and Behavior of Public School Students" November 9, 2009. Under review.
"Dressed for Success? The Effect of School Uniforms on Student Achievement and Behavior" (with Elisabetta Gentile) March 4, 2009.
"Are There Returns to Attending a Private College or University?" (appendix) February 4, 2009.
"Dynamic Effects of Teacher Incentive Pay: Evidence from a Rank-Order Tournament." (with Michael Lovenheim)
Courses - They're what I teach.
Econ3377 - Economics of Public Finance (U)
Econ3332 - Intermediate Microeconomics
Econ and Data Links
NBER - Check out working papers to see the latest in econ research.
ICPSR - Almost every dataset under the sun.
National Center for Education Statistics - Great place for education data.
Texas Academic Excellence Indicator System - Possibly the best publicly available education data set around.
Econ Blogs & Humor
Marginal Revolution - Viva la revolucion!
Mankiw Blog - Do you Pigou?
Econometrics Haiku by Keisuke Hirano (Hat tip: Marginal Revolution)
My favorite:
T-stat looks too good.
Use robust standard errors--
significance gone.So true... so true.
EconJeff - Jeff needs traffic. Give him a chance, you won't regret it!
General Humor
Journal of Obnoxious Statistics - Frankly, I think JASA is overrated. This is where real statistics are done.
Journal of Irreproducible Results - The godfather of the JObS.
Darwin Awards - In honor of those who should not be allowed to reproduce.
The IgNobels - Awards for research and other human activity that should never be reproduced. Check out the 2001 Econ awards. As odd as the subject may seem, it actually is very interesting and true! You can check out the paper abstract here. First law of economics - everybody responds to incentives.