Lisa Barrow

Barrow, Lisa, Wesley Morris, and Lauren Sartain, 2024, “The expanding landscape of online education: Who engages and how they fare,” Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 42, No. S1, April. 20240401050000

Sartain, Lauren, and Lisa Barrow, 2022, “The pathway to enrolling in a high-performance high school: Understanding barriers to access,” Education Finance and Policy, Vol. 17, No. 3, Summer, pp. 379–407. 20220701050000

Barrow, Lisa, Lauren Sartain, and Marisa de la Torre, 2020, “Increasing access to selective high schools through place-based affirmative action: Unintended consequences,” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 12, No. 4, October, pp. 135–163. 20201001050000

Barrow, Lisa, Cecilia-Elena Rouse, and Amanda McFarland, 2020, “Who has the time? Community college students’ time-use response to financial incentives,” Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1, March, pp. 35–52, (accepted February 24, 2020). 20200301060000

Barrow, Lisa, and Cecilia-Elena Rouse, 2018, “Financial incentives and educational investment: The impact of performance-based scholarships on student time,” Education Finance and Policy, Vol. 13, No. 4, Fall, pp. 419–448. 20180901050000

Barrow, Lisa, and Lisa Markman-Pithers, 2016, “Supporting young English learners in the United States,” The Future of Children, Vol. 26, No. 2, Fall, pp. 159–183. 20160901050000

Barrow, Lisa, Amy Claessens, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, 2015, “The impact of Chicago’s small high school initiative,” Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 87, May, pp. 100–113. 20150501050000

Barrow, Lisa, and Ofer Malamud, 2015, “Is college a worthwhile investment?,” Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 7, August, pp. 519–555. 20150801050000

Sartain, Lauren, Riley Lewers, and Lisa Barrow, “Assigning students to schools in an era of public school choice: Patterns in enrollment, applications, and offers in Chicago,” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, forthcoming.

Articles

Selective Enrollment High Schools in Chicago: Admission and Impacts
With Lauren Sartain and Marisa de la Torre
University of Chicago Consortium on School Research
February 2018

Presentations and Other Resources

Papers

GoCPS: A First Look at Applications and Offers

Summary
White Paper

With Lauren Sartain and Marisa de la Torre, 2018, white paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, August.

Description: Chicago Public Schools (CPS) offers many high school choices for students. Yet, applying to high school is complicated. CPS offers more than 250 choice programs and 11 selective enrollment programs (SEHSs) in 132 high schools. On April 26, 2017, the Chicago Board of Education adopted a common application across all high school choice programs, including charter high schools, in order to streamline the high school application process, called GoCPS. This paper presents information about the first year of implementation of GoCPS for students planning to enroll in ninth grade in the fall of 2018.

Supplemental Data

“Who Has the Time? Community College Students’ Time-Use Response to Financial Incentives”

Forthcoming, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, working paper, No. 2020-03, supplemental data.
PBS Time Use Survey Documentation