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Seth Gershenson
Seth Gershenson
Research Fellow
American University
gershens@american.edu External Homepage CV

Seth Gershenson is Professor of Public Policy in American University’s School of Public Affairs.

He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University in 2011 and a B.S. in Economics from Drexel University in 2005.

His primary research interests are in the economics of education, specifically issues relating to teacher labor markets, parents’ and students’ time use, summer learning loss, the development of character skills, and the role of expectations in the education production function.

Dr. Gershenson’s research has been supported by the W.E. Upjohn Institute, the Spencer Foundation, and the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES). His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, AEJ: Economic Policy, Journal of Public Economics, Economics of Education Review, and Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in July 2015.

IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10091
Short-Run Externalities of Civic Unrest: Evidence from Ferguson, Missouri
Seth Gershenson, Michael S. Hayes
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18 (3), 663-685.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9978
Should Value-Added Models Control for Student Absences?
Seth Gershenson
published in: Teachers College Record, 2016, ID No. 21629.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9956
LATE for the Meeting: Gender, Peer Advising, and College Success
Jimmy R. Ellis, Seth Gershenson
published as 'Gender, peer advising, and college success' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101775
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9887
High Times: The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Student Time Use
Yu-Wei Luke Chu, Seth Gershenson
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 66, 142-153.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9558
Are Student Absences Worth the Worry in U.S. Primary Schools?
Seth Gershenson, Alison Jacknowitz, Andrew Brannegan
published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2017, 12(2): 137-165.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9554
The Impact of Teacher Demographic Representation on Student Attendance and Suspensions
Stephen B. Holt, Seth Gershenson
published in: Policy Studies Journal, 2019, 47(4), 1063-1093.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9305
What Differences a Day Can Make: Quantile Regression Estimates of the Distribution of Daily Learning Gains
Michael S. Hayes, Seth Gershenson
published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 141, 48-51
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9203
Performance Standards and Employee Effort: Evidence from Teacher Absences
Seth Gershenson
published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35(3), 615-638
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9202
Who Believes in Me? The Effect of Student-Teacher Demographic Match on Teacher Expectations
Seth Gershenson, Stephen B. Holt, Nicholas W. Papageorge
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 209-224
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8958
The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks
Seth Gershenson, Erdal Tekin
published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2018, 13(4), 513-544.
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