Jesse Rothstein is an

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

, and currently professor of public policy and economics at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. In 2010, he was chief economist at the

US Department of Labor The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It is responsible for the administration of federal laws governing occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemp ...

. He is the founding director of the California Policy Lab, a research associate of the

National Bureau of Economic Research The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic co ...

, and is a member of the editorial boards of ''

Education Finance and Policy ''Education Finance and Policy'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal addressing public policy developments affecting educational institutions. Topics covered by the journal include school accountability, education standards, teacher compensation, ...

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The Review of Economics and Statistics ''The Review of Economics and Statistics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers applied economics, with specific relevance to the scope of econometrics. The editors-in-chief are Will Dobbie (Harvard University) and Raymond Fisman (Bos ...

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American Economic Review The ''American Economic Review'' is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal first published by the American Economic Association in 1911. The current editor-in-chief is Erzo FP Luttmer, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College. The journal is ...

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Industrial Relations Industrial relations or employment relations is the multidisciplinary academic field that studies the employment relationship; that is, the complex interrelations between employers and employees, labor union, labor/trade unions, employer organ ...

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Selected works

* Rothstein, Jesse. "Teacher quality in educational production: Tracking, decay, and student achievement." ''The Quarterly Journal of Economics'' 125, no. 1 (2010): 175–214. * Card, David, Alexandre Mas, and Jesse Rothstein. "Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation." ''The Quarterly Journal of Economics'' 123, no. 1 (2008): 177–218. * Card, David, and Jesse Rothstein. "Racial segregation and the black–white test score gap." ''Journal of Public Economics'' 91, no. 11-12 (2007): 2158–2184. * Rothstein, Jesse. "Student sorting and bias in value-added estimation: Selection on observables and unobservables." ''Education Finance and Policy 4,'' no. 4 (2009): 537–571. * Rothstein, Jesse M. "College performance predictions and the SAT." ''Journal of Econometrics'' 121, no. 1-2 (2004): 297–317.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American economists Chief Economists of the United States Department of Labor University of California, Berkeley faculty Education economists University of California, Berkeley alumni Princeton University faculty Harvard College alumni {{US-economist-stub