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Daniel F. McCaffrey

Senior Statistician, PNC Chair in Policy Analysis

Pittsburgh Office

Education

Ph.D., Statistics
North Carolina State University
1991

Fields

Value-Added Modeling, Analysis of clustered data, Propensity score methods for causal modeling

Policy Areas

Education: Value-Added Modeling, Accountability and Assessment
Safety and Justice and Health: Drug Policy, Substance Use and Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment

Recent Projects

  • Evaluating The Practice & Potential Of Value-Added Modeling Of Educational Acheivement
  • Causal Effects of Community-Based Treatment for Youths
  • Case-Mix-Adjustment for Adolescent Treatment
  • Enhanced Value Added Models for Estimating Teacher Effects

Selected Publications

Controlling for Individual Heterogenity in Longitudinal Models, with Applications to Student Achievement — 2007

Electronic Journal of Statistics, 1: 223-252.
Lockwood JR and McCaffrey DF

Evaluating Value-Added Models for Teacher Accountability — 2004

Daniel F. McCaffrey, Daniel Koretz, J. R. Lockwood, Laura S. Hamilton

Effectiveness of Community-Based Treatment for Substance-Abusing Adolescents: 12-Month Outcomes of Youths Entering Phoenix Academy or Alternative Probation Dispositions

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 18(3), 257-268.
Morral, A., McCaffrey, D., Ridgeway, G.

Propensity Score Estimation with Boosted Regression for Evaluating Causal Effects in Observational Studies — 2004

Psychological Methods, 9(4), Dec 2004, 403-425
McCaffrey, D., Ridgeway, G. Morral, A.

Models for Value-Added Modeling of Teacher Effects — 2004

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 29(1), 67-101. Spring 2004
McCaffrey D., Lockwood J.R., Koretz D., Louis T., Hamilton L.

Bias Reduction in Standard Errors for Linear Regression with Multi-Stage Sample — 2002

Survey Methodology, 28(2), 169-179. 2002
Bell, R.M. and McCaffrey, D.F.
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