Summaries
- Executive summary
- Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard: Fixing Child Care: What Expanded Public Subsidies Could Mean for Children, Families, and Teachers
- White House: State Breakdown: The Biden-Harris Administration's Funding Request Would Help Prevent Families Across the Country from Losing Child Care
- Economic Report of the President (2023) President's Council of Economic Advisers: p. 147 & 150
- OECD Economic Surveys: United States 2022 (2022) Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: p. 94
- USA Today (video): How affordable is child care near me?
- Early Learning Nation: Economists Find Investing in Child Care Will Dramatically Reduce Costs, Increase Mother's Employment, and Increase Quality Care
- Axios: Child care subsidies would send 1.2 million women into the workforce, new paper finds
- Bloomberg: Biden's US Child-Care Aide Would Super-Charge Mom's Employment, Study Says
- Huffington Post: The Child Care Crisis Needs a Lot More Attention Than It's Getting
- New York Times: Jobs Aplenty, but a Shortage of Care Keeps Many Women from Benefiting
- Washington Post: How to fix the U.S. labor shortage? Provide decent child care
- NBER Reporter: Children and Families Program Report 2024
Sojourner, A. (2013) Do Unions Promote Electoral Office-Holding? Evidence from Correlates of State Legislatures' Occupational Shares. Industrial & Labor Relations Review. 66(2).
Working Papers Summaries
Scholars Strategy Network: Unions Foster Middle Class Leadership in American Democracy
Press Mentions- The Hill: Democrats Should Fully Embrace Their Union Roots
- Demos Policy Shop: From Union Halls to City Halls: How Unions Create Middle-Class Public Leaders
- ADAPT International Bulletin #16 highlights paper
- Hamilton Project: The Shift in Private-Sector Union Participation
Laverde, M., E. Mykerezi, A. Sojourner & A. Sood. Gains from Reassignment: Evidence from a Two-Sided Teacher Market. [SSRN]
Sojourner, A., E. Mykerezi, & K. West. (2014) Teacher Pay Reform And Productivity: Panel Data Evidence from Adoptions of Q-Comp in Minnesota. Journal of Human Resources. 49(4): 945-981.
Summaries
- Mykerezi, Sojourner & West (July 2015) "Reforming Teacher Contracts: A Look at the Impact of Q-Comp on Student Achievement in Minnesota" Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) Reporter. Also a 3-page policy brief.
- The 74 Million: The merit pay myth: Why the conventional wisdom about paying teachers is wrong
- Star-Tribune: Additional state funding for teacher evaluations proposed
- HometownSource.com: 5-to-1 return on taxpayer dollars is encouraging news. Also, Mille Lacs County Times and Stillwater Gazette,
- Educators for Excellence Minnesota: Quality Compensation: Supporting and Rewarding Excellence in Teaching
- Minnpost: Minnesota Must Raise Q-Comp Cap to Support Teachers
- Star-Tribune op-ed: Don't Go Writing Off Q-Comp
- Cited in Star-Tribune letter to editor responding to this op-ed
- Pioneer Press article about our testimony at Minnesota House Education committee3/7/14
- Star-Tribune op-ed
- Star-Tribune article and our letter to the editor
Hart, C. & A. Sojourner (2015) Unionization and Productivity: Evidence from Charter Schools. Industrial Relations. 55(4): 422-448. Working paper version: IZA.
Press Mentions
- The American Prospect: When Charters Go Union
- Chalkbeat: At ed reform conference, charter school leaders feel the political heat and strategize about how to fend off unions
- Ohio Watchdog: Kids do fine when charter school forms labor union, study shows. Also, at Townhall.com.
- The Detroit News: Do Unions Spell Charter School Doom?
- Worchester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette Unions no enemy to achievement
- Minnesota Public Radio Union Votes at Two Charter Schools Could Open Way to Others
- Star-Tribune: St. Paul charter school votes to unionize
- Minnesota Public Radio St. Paul charter school's teachers join union
- Pioneer-Press: St. Paul German Immersion School teachers vote for union
- Star-Tribune: German school now state's only unionized charter
Sajjadiani, S., A. Sojourner, J. Kammeyer-Mueller & E. Mykerezi (2019) Using Machine Learning to Translate Pre-Hire Work History into Predictors of Performance and Retention. Journal of Applied Psychology. 104(10):1207-1225.
[Slides] Press Mentions
- Quartz at Work: An experiment to find teachers who perform better and stay longer shows promising results
- Education Week: Taking the Guesswork Out of Teacher Hiring
- Education Week: Districts Are Screening for Racial Biases During Teacher Job Interviews. Here's How
- Nimble: Nimble partners with researchers to identify excellent teachers
- City Pages: Can AI help Minneapolis Public Schools find better teachers who stay longer?
- Carlson School magazine: Aaron Sojourner helps Minneapolis Public Schools invest in their students
- UBC Sauder magazine: Study finds using machine learning can hire better teachers
- U Minnesota Research Brief: Predicting Job Performance and Turnover in Education Using Machine Learning
Aaron Sojourner
Senior Researcher
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
269-385-0438
sojourner@upjohn.org
Senior Researcher
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
269-385-0438
sojourner@upjohn.org