Papers
by Victor Lavy
How Responsive is Investment in
Schooling to Changes in Redistribution Policies and in Returns? (joint with Ran Abramitzky)
What Makes an Effective
Teacher? Quasi-Experimental Evidence.
Mother‘s Schooling and Fertility
under Low Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,
(joint
with Alexander Zablotsky).
Gender Differences in Market
Competitiveness in a Real Workplace: Evidence from Performance-based Pay
Tournaments among Teachers, Forthcoming, Economic Journal
The Good, The Bad and The Average: Evidence on Ability Peer Effects in Schools (with Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt), Journal of Labor Economics, April 2012
Inside the Black Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence
from Variation in Low Achievers in the Classroom, (with D. Passerman and A. Schlosser), Economic Journal, March 2012
Sixty
Years after the Magic Carpet Ride: The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood
Environment on Social and Economic Outcome, (with D. Passerman and Eric Gould), Review of Economic Studies, July
2011.
Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School,
(with A. Schlosser). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April
2011
Multiple Experiments for the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children, (with J. Angrist and A. Schlosser). Journal of Labor Economics, October 2010
Effects of Free Choice among Public Schools, Review of Economic Studies, July 2010
Performance
Pay and Teachers' Effort, Productivity and Grading Ethics, American
Economic Review, December 2009
Does
Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives?
Quasi-Experimental Evidence, (with E. Gould and Daniele Paserman), Economic
Journal, October 2009
The
Effects of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a
Group-Randomized Trial, (with J. Angrist),
American Economic Review, September 2009
Do Gender Stereotypes Reduce Girls' or Boys' Human
Capital Outcomes? Evidence from a Natural Experiment, Journal of
Public Economics, 2008
Does Raising the Principal's Wage Improve the School's
Outcomes? Quasi-experimental Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment in
Israel, Scandinavian Journal of Economic, 2008, Special issue
on Economics of Education
Do Differences in School’s Instruction Time
Explain International Achievement Gaps in Math, Science, and Reading? Evidence
from Developed and Developing Countries, NBER Working Paper w16227, July 2010