Nora E. Gordon

Assistant Professor of Economics

University of California, San Diego                                                   email: negordon-'at'-ucsd.edu
Department of Economics                                                                  phone: (858) 534-2988
9500 Gilman Drive                                                                             fax: (858) 534-7040

La Jolla, CA 92093-0508

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Research

“Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic: Education and the Age Profile of Literacy in Rich Nations” (joint with Elizabeth Cascio and Damon Clark), November 2007. Forthcoming, Journal of Economic Perspectives.

“The Effects of School District Consolidation on Educational Cost and Quality” (joint with Brian Knight), forthcoming, Public Finance Review.

“From Brown to Busing” (joint with Elizabeth Cascio, Ethan Lewis, and Sarah Reber), NBER Working Paper No. 13279, July 2007. Forthcoming, Journal of Urban Economics.

“The Causes of Political Integration: An Application to School Districts” (joint with Brian Knight), NBER Working Paper No. 12047, Feb. 2006. Under review.

“The Effect of State Education Finance Reform on Total Local Resources” (joint with Katherine Baicker), Journal of Public Economics Vol 90/8-9, pp. 1519-1534, Jan. 2006.

“Financial Incentives and the Desegregation of Southern Schools” (joint with Elizabeth Cascio, Ethan Lewis, and Sarah Reber), Nov. 2005 version.

“Improving Informed Consent and Enhancing Recruitment for Research by Understanding Economic Behavior” (joint with Laura B. Dunn),

Journal of the American Medical Association 293(5), February 2, 2005, 609-612.

“Educational Finance Equalization, Spending, Teacher Quality and Student Outcomes: The Case of Brazil’s FUNDEF,” (joint with Emiliana Vegas) in E. Vegas (ed.), Incentives to Improve Teaching: Lessons from Latin America. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2005.

“Do Federal Funds Boost School Spending? Evidence from Title I,” Journal of Public Economics 88(9-10), August 2004, 1771-92.

“Bilingual Education versus English Immersion: Findings from California's Proposition 227,” (joint with Caroline Hoxby), work in progress.

“The Industrial Organization of the Market for Comprehensive School Reform Programs,” (joint with Silke Januszewski Forbes), work in progress.