John B. Willett

23.6k citations
134 papers · 17.7k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 51

Impact in

Papers in

    • School Choice and Performance 37
    • Education Systems and Policy 13
    • Early Childhood Education and Development 11
    • Higher Education Research Studies 8

John B. Willett

125 papers receiving 16.3k citations

Hit Papers

Methods Matter: Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research 2010 · 447 citations
44719852026199820122.5k5.0k7.5k

Peers

John B. Willett
Comparison fields: 5 of 209
  • Clinical Psychology 4.2k
  • Statistics and Probability 1.4k
  • Applied Psychology 851
  • Education 4.3k
  • Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology 219
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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1 201326
2
Inequality and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Massachusetts.
20131
3 2011101
4
High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers: A Multi-Dimensional Regression-Discontinuity Analysis. NBER Working Paper No. 17112.
20112
5
Do Financial Incentives Help Low-Performing Schools Attract and Keep Academically Talented Teachers? Evidence from California. NBER Working Paper No. 14780.
20094
6
Trends in the Black-White Achievement Gap: Clarifying the Meaning of Within- and Between-School Achievement Gaps. NBER Working Paper No. 14213.
20086
7
The Consequences of High School Exit Examinations for Struggling Low-Income Urban Students: Evidence from Massachusetts. NBER Working Paper No. 14186.
20083
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Do Teacher Absences Impact Student Achievement? Longitudinal Evidence from One Urban School District. NBER Working Paper No. 13356.
20078
9 200735
10 20051
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"Second-Chance" Strategies for Female School Dropouts.
200017
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Does Acquisition of a GED Lead to More Training, Post-Secondary Education, and Military Service for School Dropouts?
199715
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Using covariance structure analysis to detect correlates and predictors of individual change over time.
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1994673
14 1993208
15 1990113
16 199079
17 19893
18 1988101
19 198430
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Die Eröffnung des politischen : Zeitalters auf dem Theater
19820

About John B. Willett

John B. Willett is a scholar working on Education, Statistics and Probability, Family Practice, Safety Research and Clinical Psychology, having authored 134 papers that have together received 17.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include School Choice and Performance (37 papers), Education Systems and Policy (13 papers), Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (11 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (11 papers), Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (8 papers), Higher Education Research Studies (8 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 papers) and Diabetes Management and Research (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Clinical Psychology (4.2k citations), Statistics and Probability (1.4k citations), Applied Psychology (851 citations), Education (4.3k citations) and Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology (219 citations). John B. Willett has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Slovakia and Chile. Frequent co-authors include J. David Singer, Richard J. Murnane, Aline G. Sayer, Ming‐Te Wang, Nina Martin, Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Catherine Ayoub, John P. Papay, Stuart T. Hauser and Joseph I. Wolfsdorf. Their work appears in journals such as Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Economics of Education Review, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and Journal of Educational Psychology.

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