Emily K. Penner

1.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 889 citations indexed

About

Emily K. Penner is a scholar working on Education, Sociology and Political Science and Information Systems and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Emily K. Penner has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 889 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Education, 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Information Systems and Management. Recurrent topics in Emily K. Penner's work include School Choice and Performance (19 papers), Higher Education Research Studies (7 papers) and Education Discipline and Inequality (4 papers). Emily K. Penner is often cited by papers focused on School Choice and Performance (19 papers), Higher Education Research Studies (7 papers) and Education Discipline and Inequality (4 papers). Emily K. Penner collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. Emily K. Penner's co-authors include Thomas S. Dee, Thurston Domina, Andrew M. Penner, Stephanie M. Reich, Greg J. Duncan, Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej, Sonya R. Porter, Anamarie Auger, Quentin Brummet and Andrew McEachin and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annual Review of Sociology and American Educational Research Journal.

In The Last Decade

Emily K. Penner

32 papers receiving 841 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Causal Effects of Cultural Relevance

2016 221 citations Thomas S. Dee, Emily K. Penner profile →
Categorical Inequality: Schools As Sorting Machines

2017 170 citations Thurston Domina, Andrew M. Penner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Emily K. Penner United States	14	594	339	85	77	69	37	889
Gawaian Bodkin‐Andrews Australia	17	454 0.8×	284 0.8×	83 1.0×	81 1.1×	125 1.8×	52	825
Marianne N. Bloch United States	14	349 0.6×	195 0.6×	55 0.6×	53 0.7×	39 0.6×	36	542
Craig B. Howley United States	20	1.1k 1.9×	177 0.5×	111 1.3×	39 0.5×	50 0.7×	132	1.3k
Matthew DeBell United States	13	203 0.3×	207 0.6×	64 0.8×	65 0.8×	61 0.9×	21	561
Graham Butt United Kingdom	14	404 0.7×	177 0.5×	30 0.4×	28 0.4×	82 1.2×	49	718
Amer Hasan United States	15	452 0.8×	165 0.5×	226 2.7×	210 2.7×	51 0.7×	41	906
Miguel Ángel Mexico	12	279 0.5×	134 0.4×	28 0.3×	38 0.5×	45 0.7×	310	825
James Rogers United States	11	280 0.5×	155 0.5×	94 1.1×	31 0.4×	51 0.7×	49	578
Esther Prins United States	15	339 0.6×	279 0.8×	26 0.3×	43 0.6×	25 0.4×	68	726
Elisabeth King United States	13	132 0.2×	313 0.9×	77 0.9×	99 1.3×	211 3.1×	47	649

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Emily K. Penner

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Domina, Thurston, et al.. (2025). Peer income exposure across the income distribution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(7). e2410349122–e2410349122.

Brummet, Quentin, Emily K. Penner, Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej, & Sonya R. Porter. (2024). After School: An Examination of the Career Paths and Earnings of Former Teachers. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 47(2). 503–531. 2 indexed citations

Penner, Emily K., Andrew M. Penner, & Thurston Domina. (2023). Schooled and Sorted.

Liu, Jing, Emily K. Penner, & W.B. Gao. (2023). Troublemakers? The Role of Frequent Teacher Referrers in Expanding Racial Disciplinary Disproportionalities. Educational Researcher. 52(8). 469–481. 9 indexed citations

Penner, Emily K., et al.. (2022). Inequities in Student Exposure to Lead in Classroom Drinking Fountains: Descriptive Evidence Comparing Students within and Across Schools in Portland, Oregon. Urban Education. 59(9). 2797–2825. 1 indexed citations

Dee, Thomas S., et al.. (2021). Ethnic studies increases longer-run academic engagement and attainment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(37). 47 indexed citations

Bitler, Marianne, et al.. (2019). Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale. NBER Working Paper No. 26480.. National Bureau of Economic Research. 2 indexed citations

Penner, Emily K.. (2019). Teach For America and Teacher Quality: Increasing Achievement Over Time. Educational Policy. 35(7). 1047–1084. 5 indexed citations

Penner, Emily K., et al.. (2019). Differing Views of Equity: How Prospective Educators Perceive Their Role in Closing Achievement Gaps. RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 5(3). 103–127. 12 indexed citations

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Penner, Emily K.. (2018). Early Parenting and the Reduction of Educational Inequality in Childhood and Adolescence.. Grantee Submission.

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Domina, Thurston, Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej, Andrew M. Penner, et al.. (2018). Is Free and Reduced-Price Lunch a Valid Measure of Educational Disadvantage?. Educational Researcher. 47(9). 539–555. 91 indexed citations

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Hough, Heather, et al.. (2016). Identity Crisis: Multiple Measures and the Identification of Schools under ESSA. Policy Memo 16-3.. 2 indexed citations

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Domina, Thurston, Andrew M. Penner, & Emily K. Penner. (2016). 'Membership Has Its Privileges': Status Incentives and Categorical Inequality in Education. Sociological Science. 3. 264–295. 13 indexed citations

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Penner, Emily K.. (2016). Early parenting and the reduction of educational inequality in childhood and adolescence. The Journal of Educational Research. 111(2). 213–231. 4 indexed citations

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Penner, Andrew M., Thurston Domina, Emily K. Penner, & AnneMarie Conley. (2015). Curricular policy as a collective effects problem: A distributional approach. Social Science Research. 52. 627–641. 13 indexed citations

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Domina, Thurston, Andrew M. Penner, Emily K. Penner, & AnneMarie Conley. (2014). Algebra for All: California's Eighth-Grade Algebra Initiative as Constrained Curricula. Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education. 116(8). 1–32. 20 indexed citations

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Auger, Anamarie, Stephanie M. Reich, & Emily K. Penner. (2014). The effect of baby books on mothers' reading beliefs and reading practices. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 35(4). 337–346. 12 indexed citations

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Domina, Thurston, Andrew M. Penner, Emily K. Penner, & AnneMarie Conley. (2012). Does Detracking Work? Evidence from a Mathematics Curricular Reform.. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness.

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Reich, Stephanie M., Emily K. Penner, & Greg J. Duncan. (2011). Using Baby Books to Increase New Mothers’ Safety Practices. Academic Pediatrics. 11(1). 34–43. 21 indexed citations

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Penner, Emily K., et al.. (1989). Dolphin echolocation: identification of returning echoes using a counterpropagation network. 17. 295–300 vol.1. 23 indexed citations

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