Andrew Bacher-Hicks
Assistant Professor of Education, Boston University
Working Papers:
Pre-Trends Matter: Understanding Covid-Era School Enrollment Declines (with Micah Baum)
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Reducing Barriers to Entry: Emergency Teaching Licenses and Changes to the Teacher Workforce During Covid (with Olivia Chi, Ariel Tichnor-Wagner and Sidrah Baloch)
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Push and Pull Factors in Obtaining Teacher Licensure: Implications for Increasing Pathways into the Teaching Profession for Emergency License Holders (with Ariel Tichnor-Wagner, Nicole Reddig, Olivia Chi, and Sidrah Baloch)
Under Review
Validating Teacher Effect Estimates Using Changes in Teacher Assignment in Los Angeles (with Tom Kane and Doug Staiger)
Media: Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight
Summary: Brookings
Social Costs of Proactive Policing: The Impact of NYC’s Stop and Frisk Program on Educational Attainment (with Elijah de la Campa)
Media: New York Times, Chalkbeat
The Impact of NYC's Stop and Frisk Program on Crime: The Role of Police Commanders (with Elijah de la Campa)
Explaining Teacher Effects on Achievement Using Measures from Multiple Research Traditions (with Mark Chin, Heather Hill, & Doug Staiger)
The Effects of Within-School Student-Teacher Matching (with Chris Avery)