Jason Cook

Jason Cook

Assistant Professor

Department of Finance, University of Utah

CESifo and IZA Research Affiliate

Annenberg Institute Contributor

Fields: Public, Labor, Economics of Education

Publications:

Marianne Bitler, Jason Cook, Jonathan Rothbaum (2021). Working for Your Bread: The Labor Supply Effects of SNAP. American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings. (ungated version)

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

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.

Previous versions: IZA DP, CESifo WP
Media: Chalkbeat

Jason Cook, Stéphane Lavertu, Corbin Miller. Rent-Seeking through Collective Bargaining: Teachers Unions and Education Production. Revise & Resubmit - Economics of Education Review.

Media: The74
Slides

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.

Public Transit and the Working Poor -- with Prottoy Akbar, Sierra Hall, and Hugh Macartney

Contact Information:

Office: GARFF 3412

Email: Jason [dot] Cook [at] Eccles [dot] Utah [dot] edu

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