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Teny Maghakian Shapiro

Santa Clara University, USA

World of Labor is an exciting and important project that makes labor policy research accessible to everyone. I am thrilled to be a part of it and share in their commitment to provide policymakers with comprehensive and clear information about today’s most important labor issues

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Author

Current position

Assistant Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University, USA

Research interest

Education, health, labor economics, public economics

Website

https://works.bepress.com/teny_maghakianshapiro/

Past positions

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Merced, 2012–2013

Qualifications

PhD Economics, University of California, Davis, 2012

Selected publications

  • “A’s from Zzz’s? The causal effect of school start time on the academic achievement of adolescents.” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 3:3 (2011): 62–81 (with S. Carrell and J. West).

  • “What a difference a day makes: Quantifying the effects of birth timing manipulation on infant health.” Journal of Health Economics 33 (2014): 139–158 (with L. Schulkind).

  • “Missed signals: The effect of ACT college-readiness measures on post-secondary decisions.” Economics of Education Review 46 (2015): 39–51 (with A. Foote and L. Schulkind).

article(s)

  • The educational effects of school start times

    Delaying secondary school start times can be a cost-effective policy to improve students’ grades and test scores

    Teny Maghakian Shapiro, August 2015
    The combination of changing sleep patterns in adolescence and early school start times leaves secondary school classrooms filled with sleep-deprived students. Evidence is growing that having adolescents start school later in the morning improves grades and emotional well-being, and even reduces car accidents. Opponents cite costly adjustments to bussing schedules and decreased time after school for jobs, sports, or other activities as reasons to retain the status quo. While changing school start times is not a costless policy, it is one of the easiest to implement and least expensive ways of improving academic achievement.
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