Seth Gershenson Professor Public Administration and Policy
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Seth Gershenson holds a PhD from Michigan State University in Economics with a primary focus on education policy. While at Michigan State, he taught several courses and received an Outstanding Teaching award. Professor Gershenson has also been honored with the New Scholar Award by the American Education Finance Association. His approach to teaching and scholarship is to apply economic approaches to practical, policy-driven questions in public education, specifically teacher behavior. Professor Gershenson teaches Quantitative Methods, Managerial Economics, and Economics for Policy Analysis to MPA and MPP students.
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- SPA Department of Public Administration and Policy
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Teaching
Summer 2024
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PUAD-630 Public Managerial Economics
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SPA-085 Topics in Public Affairs: A Gentle Introduction to Stata
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SPA-085 Topics in Public Affairs: Intro to Stata and R
Fall 2024
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PUAD-630 Public Managerial Economics
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PUAD-672 Adv Quant Meth for Pol Analys
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PUAD-898 Doctoral Continuing Enrollment
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PUAD-899 Doctoral Dissertation
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SPA-085 Topics in Public Affairs: Causal Inference I
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SPA-614 Conduct of Inquiry III
Spring 2025
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PUAD-602 Quant Meth for Pol Analysis II
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PUAD-771 Public Finance & Human Capital
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
Articles
Gershenson, Seth, Hart, Cassandra M. D., Lindsay, Constance A., & Papageorge, Nicholas. 2017. The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers. IZA Discussion Paper No. 10630.
Holt, Stephen B., & Gershenson, Seth. 2017. The impact of teacher demographic representation on student attendance and suspensions. In Press, Policy Studies Journal.
Gershenson, Seth, & Tekin, Erdal. 2017. The effect of community traumatic events on student achievement: Evidence from the beltway sniper attacks. In Press, Education Finance & Policy.
Gershenson, Seth, & Hayes, Michael S. 2017. Police shootings, civic unrest, and student achievement: Evidence from Ferguson. In Press, Journal of Economic Geography.
Dee, Thomas S., & Gershenson, Seth. 2016. Unconscious bias in the classroom: Evidence and Opportunities. Mountain View, CA: Google Inc.
Gershenson, Seth, Holt, Stephen, & Papageorge, Nicholas. 2016. . Economics of Education Review, 52: 209-224.
Gershenson, Seth.2016. . Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, 35(3):聽615-638.
Gershenson, Seth. 2016. . Education Finance & Policy, 11(2): 125-149.
Gershenson, Seth & Langbein, Laura. 2015. . Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 37(1S): 135S-155S.
Gershenson, Seth. 2013. American Educational Research Journal, 50(6): 1219-1248.
Gershenson, Seth. 2013. "." Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 54: 127-140.
Gershenson, Seth. 2012. 鈥,鈥 Economics of Education Review, 31(4): 410-430.