Seth Gershenson

Research Fellow

American University

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Seth Gershenson is Professor of Public Policy in American University’s School of Public Affairs.

He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University in 2011 and a B.S. in Economics from Drexel University in 2005.

His primary research interests are in the economics of education, specifically issues relating to teacher labor markets, parents’ and students’ time use, summer learning loss, the development of character skills, and the role of expectations in the education production function.

Dr. Gershenson’s research has been supported by the W.E. Upjohn Institute, the Spencer Foundation, and the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES). His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, AEJ: Economic Policy, Journal of Public Economics, Economics of Education Review, and Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in July 2015.

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IZA-Publikationen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13291
Conceptualizing Grade Inflation
Adam Tyner, Seth Gershenson
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102037
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12613
The Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Secondary School Absences
Jing Liu, Monica Lee, Seth Gershenson
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 199, 104441
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12201
The Intergenerational Transmission of Teaching
Alberto Jacinto, Seth Gershenson
published in: American Educational Research Journal, 2021, 58 (3), 635-672.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12158
When Paywall Goes AWOL: The Demand for Open Access Education Research
Seth Gershenson, Morgan S. Polikoff, Rui Wang
published in: Educational Researcher, 2020, 49(4): 254-261.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11912
Quantile Regression Estimates of the Effect of Student Absences on Academic Achievement
Seth Gershenson, Jessica Rae McBean, Long Tran
published in: M. Gottfried; E. Hutt (eds.): Addressing Absenteeism, Cambridge, MA, 2019, 67-82
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11911
Experimental Estimates of the Student Attendance Production Function
Long Tran, Seth Gershenson
published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2021, 43 (2), 183-199.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10630
The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers
Seth Gershenson, Cassandra M. D. Hart, Constance A. Lindsay, Nicholas W. Papageorge
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022, 14 (4), 300-342
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10459
Stereotype Threat, Role Models, and Demographic Mismatch in an Elite Professional School Setting
Christopher Birdsall, Seth Gershenson, Raymond Zuniga
published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2020, 15(3): 457-486.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10165
Teacher Expectations Matter
Nicholas W. Papageorge, Seth Gershenson, Kyungmin Kang
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102(2): 234-251.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10091
Short-Run Externalities of Civic Unrest: Evidence from Ferguson, Missouri
Seth Gershenson, Michael S. Hayes
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18 (3), 663-685.
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