Research




Primary Research Interests: 

Economics of Education, Labor Economics and Public Economics


Link to CV

PUBLICATIONS

Farré, Lídia, Yarine Fawaz, Libertad González, and Jennifer Graves. "Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work During Covid‐19 Times." Review of Income and Wealth (2021). [Previous WP version

Graves, Jennifer, and Zoe Kuehn. "Higher education decisions and macroeconomic conditions at age eighteen." SERIEs (2021): 1-71.

Graves, Jennifer, and Zoë Kuehn. "Specializing in growing sectors: Wage returns and gender differences." Labour Economics 70 (2021): 101994. [Previous WP version]

Graves, Jennifer, Steven McMullen, and Kathryn Rouse. "Teacher turnover, composition and qualifications in the year-round school setting." The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 18.3 (2018).

 

Gottfried, Michael A., and Jennifer Graves. "Peer effects and policy: The relationship between classroom gender composition and student achievement in early elementary school." The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 14.3 (2014): 937-977.

 

Graves, Jennifer. "School calendars, child care availability and maternal employment." Journal of Urban Economics 78 (2013): 57-70.

 

Graves, Jennifer. "The effects of school calendar type on maternal employment across racial groups: A story of child care availability." American Economic Review 103.3 (2013): 279-83.

 

Graves, Jennifer, Steven McMullen, and Kathryn Rouse. "Multi-track year-round schooling as cost saving reform: Not just a matter of time." Education Finance and Policy 8.3 (2013): 300-315.

 

Graves, Jennifer. "Effects of year-round schooling on disadvantaged students and the distribution of standardized test performance." Economics of Education Review 30.6 (2011): 1281-1305.

 

Graves, Jennifer. "The academic impact of multi-track year-round school calendars: A response to school overcrowding." Journal of urban Economics 67.3 (2010): 378-391.

 

Jeliazkov, Ivan, Jennifer Graves, and Mark Kutzbach. "Fitting and comparison of models for multivariate ordinal outcomes." Bayesian econometrics. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2008.


WORKING PAPERS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS

"Creativity under pressure: Performance payments, task type and productivity" with Joaquín Artes and Meryl Motika, Division of Social Science Working Paper Series, NYUAD, WP No. 0028, October 2019. (Under review)

“The effect of childcare subsidies for young children on mothers’ fertility decisions and labor market outcomes: A natural experiment from Spain” with Joaquin Artés and Irene Gómez

 

Employment Discrimination and Labor Market Protections for Sexual Minorities in Brazil” with Christopher Trond

"The effects of year-round school calendars on obesity and fitness in California" with Paul von Hippel

Related media links on year-round schools:

"Busting the Myths About Year-Round School Calendars" EducationNext


"El uso de tiempo en la escuela como recurso educativa," Indicadores Comentados Sobre el Estado del Sistema Educativo Español, 2018, pp.92-96. Fundación Ramón Areces. (unpublished version in English)


"The limitations of year-round school calendars as cost saving reform", PACE

http://www.edpolicyinca.org/blog/limitations-year-round-school-calendars-cost-saving-reform


"Oklahoma City schools should consider abandoning the year-round calendar", The Oklahoman

https://newsok.com/article/5604251/point-of-view-okc-school-district-should-alter-its-calendar


"Year-round school calendars don't increase achievement", USA Today

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/09/18/back-school-year-round-calendars-decrease-student-achievement-column/1084813002/