Andrew Bacher-Hicks

Assistant Professor of Education, Boston University

CV | Google Scholar | @abacherhicks | abhicks@bu.edu

Publications:


The School to Prison Pipeline: Long-Run Impacts of School Suspensions on Adult Crime  

AEJ: Policy (forthcoming), with David Deming and Stephen Billings

Additional Formats: Policy Brief, EducationNext

Media: BusinessInsider


COVID-19 and Student Social-Emotional Wellbeing in Schools

In preparation for Handbook of Inequality and COVID-19 (forthcoming), with Jennifer Greif Green, Ruchi Kanna, and Melisssa Holt.


The Stickiness of Pandemic-Driven Disenrollment from Public Schools

Economics of Education Review (2024), with Tareena Musaddiq, Josh Goodman, and Kevin Stange

Additional Formats: Policy Brief


Two Years Later: How COVID-19 has Shaped the Teacher Workforce

Educational Researcher (2023), with Olivia Chi and Alexis Orellana

Additional Formats: Slides, Policy Brief

Media: Time, WBUR, FiveThirtyEight


Estimation and Interpretation of Teacher Value-Added in Research Applications 

Handbook of the Economics of Education, 6th Edition (2023) with Cory Koedel


The Pandemic’s Effect on Demand for Public Schools, Homeschooling, and Private Schools

Journal of Public Economics (2022), with Tareena Musaddiq, Kevin Stange, and Joshua Goodman

Additional Formats: Policy Brief, The Conversation, NBER Digest

Media: NPR's Marketplace (9/23, starting at minute 18), NBC, Washington Post, Chalkbeat, AP News , PBS, Los Angeles Times


The COVID-19 Pandemic Disrupted Both School Bullying and Cyberbullying

AER: Insights (2022) with Joshua Goodman, Jennifer Greif Green, and Melissa Holt

Summary: WEPC Policy Brief

Media: Washington Post, The 74, Bostonia, Hechinger Report, EducationWeek, MarketWatch, SkyNews UK (article, television segment)


Calls from Boston Schools for Police Psychiatric Emergency Response: A Study of 911 Call Record Data from 2014 to 2018

School Mental Health (2022) with Green, J. G., Morabito, M. S., Savage, J., Maldonado-Reis, T., Becker, L. T., Muller, R. & Battal, J. 


Inequality in Household Adaptation to Schooling Shocks: Covid-Induced Online Learning Engagement in Real Time 

Journal of Public Economics (2021) with Joshua Goodman and Christine Mulhern

Summary: EducationNext

Media: Business Insider, The Elective, Vox's The Weeds (at 44:30)


An Experimental Evaluation of Three Teacher Quality Measures: Value-Added, Classroom Observations, and Student Surveys

Economics of Education Review (2019) with Mark Chin, Douglas Staiger, and Thomas Kane


The Challenge of Teacher Retention in Urban Schools: Evidence of Variation From a Cross-Site Analysis

Educational Researcher (2017) with John Papay, Lindsay Page, and William Marinell

Article in Washington Post with John Papay, Lindsay Page, and William Marinell

Media: the74million 


The Strategic Data Project's Strategic Performance Indicators

Education Finance and Policy (2013) with Lindsay Page, Jon Fullerton, Antoniya Owens, Sarah Cohodes, Martin West, and Sarah Glover