Thomas Joseph Kane

Publications

• Thomas J. Kane, “Evaluating the Impact of the DC Tuition Assistance Grant Program” Journal of Human Resources, Forthcoming, 2007. (Also NBER Working Paper No. 10658). (forthcoming)

• Thomas J. Kane, Jonah Rockoff and Douglas O. Staiger, “Photo Finish: Certification Does Not Guarantee a Winner” Education Next (2007) No. 1, pp. 60-67. (2007)

• Justine S. Hastings, Thomas J. Kane and Douglas O. Staiger, “Gender and Performance: Evidence from School Assignment by Randomized Lottery” American Economic Review, Vol. 96, No. 2, May 2006, pp. 232-36. (2006)

• Robert Gordon, Thomas J. Kane and Douglas O. Staiger, “Identifying Effective Teachers Using Performance on the Job” Hamilton Project Discussion Paper, Published by the Brookings Institution, March 2006. (2006)

• Thomas J. Kane, Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Douglas O. Staiger, “School Quality, Neighborhoods and Housing Prices” American Law and Economics Review (2006) Vol. 8, pp. 183-212. (Lead article in special issue on Brown v. Board of Education 50th anniversary.) (2006)

• Thomas J. Kane, “Public Intervention in Postsecondary Education” in Eric Hanushek and Finis Welch (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of Education (Amsterdam: Elsevier/North Holland, 2006). (2006)

• What Does Certification Tell Us about Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City" (with J.E. Rockoff and D.O. Staiger) (2006)

• “Economic Outcomes and the Decision to Vote: The Effect of Randomized School Admissions on Voter Participation” NBER Working Paper No. 11794 (with J.S. Hastings, D.O. Staiger, and J. Weinstein) (2005)

• “School Quality, Neighborhoods and Housing Prices: The Impacts of School Desegregation,” NBER Working Paper No. 11347, (with D.O. Staiger and S.K. Riegg) (2005)

• Thomas J. Kane, Peter R. Orszag and Emil Apostolov “Higher Education Appropriations and Public Universities: The Role of Medicaid and the Business Cycle” Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2005 pp. 99-127. (2005)

• “Evaluating the Impact of the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 10658 (2004)

• Thomas J. Kane and Christopher Avery “Student Perceptions of College Opportunities: The Boston COACH Program” in Caroline Hoxby (ed.) College Choices: The Economics of Where to Go, When to Go, and How to Pay for It (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004). (2004)

• Thomas J. Kane, “College-Going and Inequality” in Kathryn Neckerman (ed.) Social Inequality (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004). (2004)

• Thomas J. Kane and Douglas O. Staiger, “Unintended Consequences of Racial Subgroup Rules” in Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West (eds.) No Child Left Behind? The Politics and Practice of Accountability (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003). (2003)

• Thomas J. Kane and Peter R. Orszag “Higher Education Spending: The Role of Medicaid and the Business Cycle” Brookings Institution Policy Brief No. 124, September 2003. (2003)

• Thomas J. Kane, Douglas O. Staiger and Gavin Samms “School Accountability Ratings and Housing Values” in William Gale and Janet Pack (eds.) Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2003 (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2003) pp. 83-137. (2003)

• Thomas J. Kane, “The Long Road to Race-Blindness” Science October 24, 2003, Vol. 302, pp. 571-573. (2003)

• Thomas J. Kane and Douglas O. Staiger “The Promise and Pitfalls of Using Imprecise School Accountability Measures” Journal of Economic Perspectives (Fall, 2002), Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 91-114. (2002)

• Thomas J. Kane and Douglas O. Staiger “Volatility in School Test Scores: Implications for Test-Based Accountability Systems” in Diane Ravitch (ed.) Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2002 (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2002). (2002)

• Thomas J. Kane, Douglas Staiger and Jeffrey Geppert “Randomly Accountable: Test Scores and Volatility” Education Next (Spring, 2002) Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 56-61. (2002)

• Thomas J. Kane “Assessing the American Financial Aid System: What We Know, What We Need to Know” in Maureen Devlin (ed.) Forum Futures 2001: Exploring the Future of Higher Education (Cambridge, MA: Forum for the Future of Higher Education, 2001), pp. 63-66. (2001)

• David T. Ellwood and Thomas J. Kane “Who is Getting a College Education?: Family Background and the Growing Gaps in Enrollment” in Sheldon Danziger and Jane Waldfogel (eds.) Securing the Future (New York: Russell Sage, 2000). (2000)

• Phil Levine, Douglas O. Staiger, Thomas J. Kane and David Zimmerman "Roe v. Wade and American Fertility" American Journal of Public Health (1999) Vol. 89, No. 2, pp. 199-203. (1999)

• Thomas J. Kane and Cecilia E. Rouse, “The Community College: Training Students at the Margin Between College and Work” Journal of Economic Perspectives (1999) Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 63-84. (1999)

• Thomas J. Kane “Rethinking How Americans Pay for College” Milken Institute Review, August, 1999. (Cover story.) (1999)

• Thomas J. Kane, “Reforming Public Subsidies for Higher Education” in Marvin Kosters (ed.) Financing College Tuition: Government Policies and Social Priorities (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1999). (1999)

• Thomas J. Kane, “Student Aid After Tax Reform: Risks and Opportunities” in Jacqueline King (ed.) Financing a College Education: How it Works, How it’s Changing (Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1999), pp. 137-150. (1999)

• Thomas J. Kane. The Price of Admission: Rethinking How Americans Pay for College (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1999). (1999)

• William T. Dickens and Thomas J. Kane “Racial Test Score Differences as Evidence of Reverse Discrimination: Less Than Meets The Eye” Industrial Relations (1999) Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 331-363. (1999)

• Thomas J. Kane "Savings Incentives for Higher Education" National Tax Journal (1998) Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 609-620. (1998)

• Thomas J. Kane, "Racial and Ethnic Preference in College Admissions", in Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips (eds.), The Black-White Test Score Gap (Washington: Brookings Institution, 1998). (1998)

• Thomas J. Kane, “Misconceptions in the Debate over Affirmative Action in College Admissions” in Gary Orfield and Edward Miller (eds.) Chilling Admissions: The Affirmative Action Crisis and the Search for Alternatives (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Publishing Group, 1998). (1998)

• Dietmar Harhoff and Thomas J. Kane, "Financing Apprenticeship Training: Evidence from Germany" Journal of Population Economics (1997) Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 171-196. (1997)

• Thomas J. Kane "Beyond Tax Relief: Long-term Challenges in Financing Higher Education" National Tax Journal (1997) Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 335-349. (1997)

• Thomas J. Kane, "Postsecondary and Vocational Education: Keeping Track of the College Track" in Indicators of Children's Well-Being (New York: Russell Sage, 1997). (1997)

• Thomas J. Kane and Douglas Staiger, "Teen Motherhood and Abortion Access" Quarterly Journal of Economics (1996) Vol. 111, No. 2, pp. 467-506. (1996)

• Thomas J. Kane and William T. Dickens "Racial and Ethnic Preference in College Admissions" Brookings Institution Policy Brief No. 9, (November, 1996). (1996)

• Thomas J. Kane, "College Cost, Borrowing Constraints and the Timing of College Entry," Eastern Economic Journal (1996) Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 181-194. (1996)

• Thomas J. Kane, "Lessons from the Largest School Voucher Program Ever: Two Decades of Experience with Pell Grants" in Bruce Fuller and Richard Elmore with Gary Orfield (eds.) Who Chooses? Who Loses?: Culture, Institutions and the Unequal Effects of School Choice (New York: Teachers College Press, 1996). (1996)

• Thomas J. Kane and Cecilia Rouse, "Comment on W. Norton Grubb, 'The Varied Economic Returns to Postsecondary Education: New Evidence from the Class of 1972'" Journal of Human Resources (1995) Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 205-221. (1995)

• Thomas J. Kane and Cecilia Rouse, "Labor Market Returns to Two-Year and Four-Year College" American Economic Review (1995) Vol. 85, No. 3, pp. 600-614. (1995)

• William T. Dickens, Thomas J. Kane and Charles Schultze "Does The Bell Curve Ring True?" Brookings Review (1995) Vol. 13, No. 3., pp. 18-23. (1995)

• Thomas J. Kane and Mary Jo Bane "The Context for Welfare Reform" inMary Jo Bane and David T. Ellwood, Welfare Realities (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1994). (1994)

• Thomas J. Kane, "College Attendance By Blacks Since 1970: The Role of College Cost, Family Background and the Returns to Education" Journal of Political Economy (1994) Vol. 102, No. 5, pp. 878-911. (1994)

• Edward Lascher, Steven Kelman and Thomas J. Kane, "Policy Views, Constituency Pressure and Congressional Action on Flag-Burning" Public Choice, (1993) Vol. 79, pp. 79-102. (1993)

• David T. Ellwood and Thomas J. Kane, "The American Way of Aging: An Event History Analysis" in David A. Wise (ed.), Issues in the Economics of Aging, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990). (1990)

• Thomas J. Kane, "Giving Back Control: Long-Term Poverty and Motivation," Social Service Review (1987) Vol. 61, No. 3, pp. 405-419. (1987)