Scott Andrew Imberman
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Economics), University of Maryland, 2007
204 McElhinney Hall
Houston, TX 77204-5019
713-743-3839
Research.
Publications
"Katrina's Children: Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees" (with Adriana Kugler and Bruce Sacerdote). American Economic Review, forthcoming. (paper) (appendix). Earlier NBER Working Paper. Featured in Houston Chronicle, Education Next.
"Dressed for Success? The Effect of School Uniforms on Student Achievement and Behavior" (with Elisabetta Gentile). Journal of Urban Economics, 71(1), 2012. (paper) (appendix). Featured in Freakonomics, Wall Street Journal (Real Time Economics).
"Poor Results for High Achievers: Hard Evidence on the Impact of Gifted and Talented Programs" (with Sa Bui and Steven Craig). Education Next, 12(1), 2012. (paper)
"The Effect of Charter Schools on Achievement and Behavior of Public School Students" Journal of Public Economics, 95(7-8), 2011. (paper) (appendix)
"Achievement and Behavior in Charter Schools: Drawing a More Complete Picture" Review of Economics and Statistics, 93(2), 2011. (paper) (appendix). Featured in washingtonpost.com, Education Week.
"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
"Does it Pay to Get an A? School Resource Allocations in Response to Accountability Ratings" (with Steve Craig and Adam Perdue) (paper) (appendix). Revise and resubmit at Journal of Urban Economics.
"Impact of Bilingual Education Programs on Limited English Proficient Students and Their Peers: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Texas" (with Aimee Chin and N. Meltem Daysal) (paper). **NEW!**
“The Effect of Providing Breakfast on Achievement and Attendance: Evidence from an In-Class Breakfast Program” NBER Working Paper No. 17720 (with Adriana Kugler) (paper) (appendix). Under Review.
"Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea? Assessing the Impacts of Gifted and Talented Programs." NBER Working Paper No. 17089. (with Sa Bui and Steven Craig). (paper) (appendix) Under review. Featured in Wall Street Journal, Education Week, Boston Globe., Marginal Revolution, WSJ Ideas Market.
"What is the Return to Attending a Non-Elite Private College?" (with Shreyasee Das) (paper). Under review.
"Are There Returns to Attending a Private College or University?" (paper) (appendix).
Works in Progress
"Dynamic Effects of Teacher Incentive Pay: Evidence from a Rank-Order Tournament." (with Michael Lovenheim)
“Incentive Strength and Teacher Productivity: Evidence from a Group-Based Teacher Incentive Pay System” (with Michael Lovenheim)
“The Effect of Home Visits on Student Performance”
"Does the Market Value Value-Added? Evidence from Housing Prices after Public Release of Teacher Value-Added" (with Michael Lovenheim)
"Technological Innovation in Education: An Experiment in the Use of Computer Tablets in Schools" (with Bruce Sacerdote and Jee-Yeon Lehmann)
Courses - They're what I teach.
Econ3377 - Economics of Public Finance (U)
Econ3332 - Intermediate Microeconomics
Econ6397 - Public Economics and Individual Behavior
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 and Other Fun Stuff
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.
Journal of Universal Rejection - The most prestigious journal of all fields. It is literally impossible to get accepted.
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.