Scott Carrell
Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics
Scott Carrell is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the UC Davis Economics Department and a Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary area of research is in the economics of education. Professor Carrell is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at Institute for the Study of Labor, and a Faculty Fellow at the Civitas Institute at UT-Austin. He spent 10 years as an active duty officer in the U.S. Air Force, retiring from the U.S. Air Force Reserve as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2015. Read more about Scott Carrell.
Peer Reviewed Publications
“Why Do College Going Interventions Work?”
Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
(with B. Sacerdote)
(PDF copy)
“The Promises and Pitfalls of Measuring Community College
Quality,” The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social
Sciences, 2(1), 174-190 (2016). (with M. Kurlaender and J.
Jackson)
(PDF copy)
“Are School Counselors an Effective Education
Input?,” Economics Letters, 125 (2014) 66-69. (with M.
Hoekstra)
(PDF Copy)
“In Harms Way? Payday Loan Access and Military Personnel
Performance,” Review of Financial Studies, (2014) 27 (9):
2805-2840. (with J. Zinman)
(PDF Copy)
“From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Importance of
Endogenous Peer Group Formation,” Econometrica. 81(3):
855-882, 2013. (with B. Sacerdote and J. West)
(PDF Copy)
“Family Business or Social Problem? The Cost of Unreported
Domestic Violence,” Journal of Policy Analysis and
Management. Volume 31, Issue 4, pages 861-875, Fall
2012 (with M. Hoekstra)
(PDF Copy)
“A’s from Zzzz’s? The Causal Effect of School Start Time on the
Academic Achievement of Adolescents,” American Economic
Journal: Economic Policy, 3(3): 1-22, August 2011. (with T.
Maghakian and J. West)
(PDF Copy)
“Is Poor Fitness Contagious? Evidence from Randomly Assigned
Friends,” Journal of Public Economics, Volume 95, Issues
7-8, August 2011, 657-663. (with M. Hoekstra and J.
West)
(PDF Copy)
“Does Drinking Impair College Performance? Evidence from a
Regression Discontinuity Approach,” Journal of Public
Economics, Volume 95, Issues 1-2, February 2011, 54-62. (with M.
Hoekstra and J. West)
(PDF Copy)
“Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment
of Students to Professors,” Journal of Political Economy,
Volume 118, No. 3, 409-432, June 2010. (with J. West)
(PDF copy) (NBER Working Paper Version) featured
in InsideHigherEd.com, July 11, 2008
“Sex and Science: How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender
Gap,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 125, Issue 3,
August 2010. (with M. Page and J. West)
(PDF copy) (NBER Working Paper version) featured
in Slate , June 5, 2009
“Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic
Violence Affect Everyone’s Kids,” American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics, 2(1):211-228, January 2010. (with M.
Hoekstra)
(PDF copy) (Publication Link) (NBER Working Paper
version) featured in The New York Times: Freakonomics,
July 31, 2008
“Does Your Cohort Matter? Measuring Peer Effects in College
Achievement,” Journal of Labor Economics, 27(3): 439-464,
July 2009. (with R. Fullerton and J. West)
(PDF copy) (NBER Working Paper version)
“Politics and the Implementation of Public Policy: The Case of
the Military Housing Allowance Program,” Public Choice,
Volume 138, Number 3-4, March 2009, 367-386. (with J.
Hauge)
(PDF copy)
“Peer Effects in Academic Cheating,” Journal of Human
Resources. Volume XLIII, Number 1, Winter 2008,
173-207. (with J. West and F. Malmstrom)
(PDF copy)
“The National Internal Labor Market Encounters the Local Labor
Market: Effects on Employee Retention,” Labour Economics,
Volume 14, Issue 5, October 2007, Pages 774-787.
EALE Prize for the best paper published in Labour Economics
during the period 2006-2007.
(PDF copy) (Available at ScienceDirect)
“A Sequential Equilibrium for the Army’s Targeted Selective
Reenlistment Program,” Human Resource Management,, Vol 46,
No 1, Spring 2007, 21-34. (with J. West)
(PDF copy) (Available at Wiley InterScience)
“Do Lower Student to Counselor Ratios Reduce School Disciplinary
Problems?,” Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy:
Vol. 5: No. 1, Article 11, 2006. (with Susan Carrell)
(PDF copy) (Available at BE Press)
“Optimal Compensating Wages for Military Personnel,” Journal
of Policy Analysis and Management, Fall 2005. (with J. West)
(PDF copy) (Available at Wiley InterScience)
Other Publications
“How Can We Expand College Going and Retention? Mentoring,
Nudges, and Information,” Communities & Banking, 2(1),
Spring 2016. (with B. Sacderdote)
(PDF copy)
“Domino Effect,” Education Next, Volume 9, Number 3, Summer
2009. (with M. Hoekstra)
(PDF copy)
Research in Progress
“The Long-run Effects of Disruptive Peers,” Revisions
Requested, American Economic Review. (with M. Hoekstra and
E. Kuka)
(PDF copy)
“TAs Like Me: Racial Interactions between Graduate Teaching
Assistants and Undergraduates”, Revisions Requested, Journal
of Public Economics. (L. Lusher and D. Campbell)
(PDF copy)
“The Impact of College Diversity on Behavior Toward Minorities ,”
NBER Working Paper 20940. (with M. Hoekstra and J.
West)
(PDF copy)
“Estimating the Productivity of Community Colleges in Paving the
Road to Four-Year College Success ,” Working paper. (with M.
Kurlaender)
(PDF copy)
“Experimental Evidence of Professor Engagement on Student
Outcomes ,” Working paper. (with M. Kurlaender and M.
Bhatt)
(PDF copy)
“Do Students Choose Optimally? An Experiment in Endogenous Network Formations,” In Progress. (with J. West)
“Network Effects on Academic Performance,” In Progress. (with K. Williams and J. West)
“Who can be helped the most? Biomarkers, Vulnerability and Anti-Poverty Investments,” In Progress. (with M. Page and K. Williams)
