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Lisa Barrow was a senior economist and economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Bank Publications

Chicago Fed Insights

Is College a Worthwhile Investment? Examining the Benefits and Challenges
Lisa Barrow | 2024 | February
Impact of Student-Based Budgeting in Chicago Public Schools
Lisa Barrow, Sarah Komisarow, Lauren Sartain | 2023 | September
What Is Happening to Higher-Ed Enrollment?
Lisa Barrow, Victoria Lee, Ryan Perry | 2023 | January

Chicago Fed Letter

Wage Growth, Inflation and the Labor Share
Lisa Barrow, Jason Faberman | 2015 | No. 349 Download
Explaining the Recent Decline in the Unemployment Rate
Lisa Barrow | 2011 | No. 287 | June Download
The Changing Value of Education
Lisa Barrow, Cecilia Elena Rouse | 2007 | No. 237 | April Download

Economic Perspectives

The Expansion of High School Choice in Chicago Public Schools
Lisa Barrow, Lauren Sartain | 2017 | Vol. 41 | No. 5 | May Download
The Upside of Down: Postsecondary Enrollment in the Great Recession
Lisa Barrow, Jonathan Davis | 2012 | Vol. 36 | 4th Quarter Download
School Vouchers: Recent Findings and Unanswered Questions
Lisa Barrow, Cecilia Elena Rouse , Trinita Logue | 2008 | Vol. 32 | 3rd Quarter Download
The Economic Value of Education by Race and Ethnicity
Lisa Barrow, Cecilia Elena Rouse | 2006 | Vol. 30 | No. 2 | 2nd Quarter Download
Is the official unemployment rate misleading? A look at labor market statistics over the business cycle
Lisa Barrow | 2004 | Vol. 28 | No. 2 | May | 2nd Quarter Download
Private school location and neighborhood characteristics
Lisa Barrow | 2001 | Vol. 25 | No. 3 | August | 3rd Quarter Download
Child care costs and the return-to-work decisions of new mothers
Lisa Barrow | 1999 | Vol. 23 | No. 4 | November | 4th Quarter Download

Working papers

Working Papers

Are Friends of Schools the Enemies of Equity? The Interplay of Public School Funding Policies and Private External Fundraising
Lisa Barrow, Sarah Komisarow, Lauren Sartain | 2023 | No. 2023-31 | August Download
The Expanding Landscape of Online Education: Who Engages and How They Fare
Lisa Barrow, Wesley Morris, Lauren Sartain | 2022 | No. 2022-52 | November Download
Universal Student Enrollment Systems: The More Policies Change, the More Enrollment Patterns Stay the Same
Lauren Sartain, Riley Lewers, Lisa Barrow | 2022 | No. 2022-25 | June Download
The Pathway to Enrolling in a High-Performance High School: Understanding Barriers to Access
Lauren Sartain, Lisa Barrow | 2020 | No. 2020-32 | December Download
The Signaling, Screening, and Human Capital Effects of National Board Certification: Evidence from Chicago and Kentucky High Schools
Lisa Barrow, Linda Cavalluzzo, Thomas Geraghty, Christine Mokher, Lauren Sartain | 2020 | No. 2020-06 | February Download
Who Has the Time? Community College Students’ Time-Use Response to Financial Incentives
Lisa Barrow, Cecilia Elena Rouse , Amanda McFarland | 2020 | No. 2020-03 | January Download
The Role of Selective High Schools in Equalizing Educational Outcomes: Using Place-Based Affirmative Action to Estimate Heterogeneous Effects by Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status (Revised September 2017)
Lisa Barrow, Lauren Sartain, Marisa de la Torre | 2016 | No. 2016-17 Download
The Impact of Chicago's Small High School Initiative
Lisa Barrow, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Amy Claessens | 2014 | No. 2014-20 | December Download
Financial Incentives and Educational Investment: The Impact of Performance-Based Scholarships on Student Time Use
Lisa Barrow, Cecilia Elena Rouse | 2013 | No. 2013-07 Download
Paying for Performance: The Education Impacts of a Community College Scholarship Program for Low-income Adults (REVISED February 2012)
Lisa Barrow, Thomas Brock, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Cecilia Elena Rouse | 2009 | No. 2009-13 | December Download
School Vouchers and Student Achievement: Recent Evidence, Remaining Questions
Lisa Barrow, Cecilia Elena Rouse | 2008 | No. 2008-08 | August Download
Technology’s Edge: The Educational Benefits of Computer-Aided Instruction
Lisa Barrow, Lisa Markham, Cecilia Elena Rouse | 2007 | No. 2007-17 | October Download
Causality, Causality, Causality: The View of Education Inputs and Outputs from Economics
Lisa Barrow, Cecilia Elena Rouse | 2005 | No. 2005-15 Download
Do Returns to Schooling Differ by Race and Ethnicity?
Lisa Barrow, Cecilia Elena Rouse | 2005 | No. 2005-02 Download
Not Working: Demographic Changes, Policy Changes, and the Distribution of Weeks (Not) Worked
Lisa Barrow, Kristin Butcher | 2004 | No. 2004-23 Download
Women and the Phillips Curve: Do Women’s and Men’s Labor Market Outcomes Differentially Affect Real Wage Growth and Inflation?
Katharine Anderson , Lisa Barrow, Kristin Butcher | 2003 | No. 2003-22 Download
Teachers and Student Achievement in the Chicago Public High Schools
Daniel Aaronson, Lisa Barrow, William Sander | 2002 | No. 2002-28 Download
Private School Location and Neighborhood Characteristics
Lisa Barrow | 2002 | No. 2002-27 Download
Using Market Valuation to Assess the Importance and Efficiency of Public School Spending
Lisa Barrow, Cecilia Elena Rouse | 2000 | No. 2000-04 Download
The Earned Income Credit and Durable Goods Purchases
Lisa Barrow, Leslie McGranahan | 1999 | No. 1999-24 Download
School Choice Through Relocation: Evidence from the Washington, D.C. Area
Lisa Barrow | 1999 | No. 1999-07 Download
An Analysis of Women's Return-to-Work Decisions Following First Birth
Lisa Barrow | 1998 | No. 1998-09 Download

Selected External Publications

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

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