Jason Cook

Jason Cook

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh

Joining the Department of Finance, University of Utah (Fall 2020)

CESifo and IZA Research Affiliate

Annenberg Institute Contributor

Fields: Public, Labor, Economics of Education

Publications:

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Peter Brummund, Jason Cook, Miriam Larson-Koester (2020). Is There Still Son Preference in the United States? The Journal of Population Economics.

Media: NY Times, The Atlantic, VOX

Jason Cook, Vladimir Kogan, Stéphane Lavertu, and Zachary Peskowitz (2020). Government Privatization and Democracy: The Case of Charter Schools In Ohio. Journal of Politics.

Media: Education Week, Center on Reinventing Public Education

Jason Cook (2018). The Effect of Charter Competition on Unionized District Revenues and Resource Allocation. Journal of Public Economics.

Jason Cook and Richard Mansfield (2016). Task-Specific Experience and Task-Specific Talent: Decomposing the Productivity of High School Teachers. Journal of Public Economics.

Jason Cook and James McDonald (2013). Partially Adaptive Estimation of Interval Censored Regression Models. Computational Economics.

Working Papers:

Jason Cook. Race-Blind Admissions, School Segregation, and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Race-Blind Magnet School Lotteries. Under Review. (Online Appendix). Updated.

Media: Chalkbeat

Jason Cook, Stéphane Lavertu, Corbin Miller. Rent-Seeking through Collective Bargaining: Teachers Unions and Education Production. Under Review.

Works in Progress:

How Place and Poverty Intersect: Evidence about Lack of Retail and Low Nutrition Assistance Take-up -- with Marianne Bitler and Sonya R. Porter.

Funding: Institute for Poverty Research

Nutrition Assistance Eligibility and Labor Supply -- with Marianne Bitler and Jonathan Rothbaum.

Funding: W.E. Upjohn Institute; Tufts/UConn RIDGE

Temporal Segregation -- with Hugh Macartney, Edward Rubin, and Glen Waddell.

Public Transit and the Working Poor -- with Sierra Hall

Links to Schedule Student Office Hours

Link for Graduate Student Advising

Link for ECON 2160 Student Office Hours

Contact Information:

Office: 4927 Posvar Hall

Phone: (412) 648-8746

Email: jbc50 [at] pitt [dot] edu

Subpages (1): Misc.