Research
Publications
Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley, Lu Huang, Caroline Thompson, and Krista Perreira “Mental health symptoms among U.S. College Students before, early, and late into the Covid-19 pandemic: a longitudinal analysis”, Journal of Adolescent Health, January, 2025.
Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley, Alex Weng and Krista Perreira “The effect of social media use on mental health of college students during the pandemic,” Health Economics, 2024: 33(10).
Selected media mentions: Medical Xpress, The Well, Spectrum News 1
Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley, Emilia Mazzolenis, Mollie Pepper and Krista Perreira “Perceived stress, mental health symptoms, and deleterious behaviors during the transition to college”, PLOS One, 2023: 18(6).
Aucejo, Esteban, Patrick Coate, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Sean Kelly and Zachary Mozenter. “Teacher Effectiveness and Classroom Composition: Understanding Match Effects in Education Production,” Economic Journal, 2022: 132(648).
Current Draft
Media mention: Education Next Podcast
Aucejo, Esteban, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Sean Kelly, Zachary Mozenter. “Teachers and the Gender Gap in Reading Achievement,” accepted, Journal of Human Capital
Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley, Benjamin Gorman, Krista Perreira. “The effect of social and stress-related factors on alcohol use among college students during the Covid-19 pandemic,” forthcoming Journal of Adolescent Health
Jaeger, David A., Jaime Arellano-Bover, Krzystof Karbownik, Marta Martinez-Matute, John M. Nunley, R. Alan Seals, Miguel Almunia, Mackenzie Alston, Sascha O. Becker, Pilar Beneito, René Böheim, José E. Boscá, Jessica H. Brown, Simon Chang, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Shooshan Danagoulian, Sandra Donnally, Marissa Eckrote-Nordland, Lídía Farré, Javier Ferri, Margherita Fort, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Rebecca Gelding, Allen C. Goodman, Melanie Guldi, Simone Häckl, Janet Hankin, Scott Imberman, Joanna Lahey, Joan Llull, Hani Mansour,Isaac McFarlin, Jaakko Meriläinen, Tove Mörtlund, Martin Nybom, Stephen D. OConnell, Rupert Sausgruber, Amy Ellen Schwarz, Jan Stuhler, Petra Thiemann, Roel van Veldhuizen, Marianne Wannamaker, Maria Zhu “The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First wave results,” Covid Economics, 79, May 27, 2021.
Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley, Siddhartha Biswas, Krista Perreira, “The Covid-19 pandemic and mental health of first-year college students: Examining the effect of Covid-19 stressors using longitudinal data,” PLOS One, March 5, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247999
Media Mentions: WRAL, The Well, The Daily Tar Heel, Scienmag, MedicalXpress, EurekaAlert
Sean Kelly, Zachary Mozenter, Esteban Aucejo, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth. “School-to-School Differences in Instructional Practice: New Descriptive Evidence on Opportunity to Learn,” 2020, Teacher College Record, 122(11).
Kelly, Sean, Robert Bringe, Esteban Aucejo and Jane Cooley Fruehwirth. “Using Global Observation Protocol to Inform Research on Teacher Effectiveness and School Improvement: Strengths and Emerging Limitations”, in press, Education Policy Analysis Archives. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.5012.
Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley, Jessica Gagete Miranda. “Your Peers’ Parents: Spillovers from Parental Education”, 2019, Economics of Education Review 73(December). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2019.101910.
Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley, Sriya Iyer and Anwen Zhang. “Religion and Depression in Adolescence,” 2019, Journal of Political Economy, 127(3). https://doi.org/10.1086/701425
Media mentions: NPR’s Hidden Brain, America Magazine
Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley, Salvador Navarro and Yuya Takahashi. “A Framework for the Analysis of Time-varying Treatment Effects: How the Timing of Grade Retention Affects Outcomes,” 2016, Journal of Labor Economics, 34(4): 979-1021. https://doi.org/10.1086/686262
Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley. “Can Achievement Peer Effect Estimates Inform Policy? A View from Inside the Black Box,” 2014, Review of Economics and Statistics 96(3): 514-523. https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00385
Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley. “Identifying Peer Achievement Spillovers: Implications for Desegregation and the Achievement Gap,” 2013, Quantitative Economics 4(1), 85-124. https://doi.org/10.3982/QE93
Bajari, Patrick, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Kyoo-Il Kim and Christopher Timmins. “A Rational Expectations Approach to Hedonic Price Regressions with Time-Varying Unobserved Product Attributes: The Price of Pollution,” 2012, American Economic Review 102(5): 1898-1926. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.102.5.1898
Brock, William A., Steven N. Durlauf, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth and Salvador Navarro. “On the Observational Implications of Taste-Based Discrimination in Racial Profiling,” 2012, Journal of Econometrics, 166(1): 66-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2011.06.006
Arcidiacono, Peter, Jane Cooley and Andrew Hussey. “The Economic Returns to an MBA,” 2008, International Economic Review, 49(3): 873-899. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2354.2008.00500.x
Rodgers, Yana V. and Jane Cooley. “Outstanding Female Economists in the Analysis and Practice of Development Economics,” 1999, World Development, 27(8): 1397-1411. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(99)00063-7
Other Publications
Cooley, Jane. “Classroom Peer Effects,” The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Eds. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 (8 pages)
Working Papers
Katherine Ingram, Kyle Nickodem Anne Drescher, Marisa E. Marraccini and Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Krista M. Perreira “Within-Person Trends in Anxiety, Depression, and Social Isolation among First-Year College Students before and after the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic”, revise and resubmit, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.
Caleb Easterly, Krista Perreira, Shauna Cooper, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth “COVID-19 Stress and Longitudinal Resilience among First-Year College Students.”
Samuel Barker, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Valentin Verdier and Krista Perreira “Resilience: Harnessing Variation in Dynamic Treatment Effects to Improve Policy”
Work in Progress
Barker, Samuel, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Shauna Cooper, Camille Goins, Cat Warner-Griffin “Teacher Turnover and Attrition During the Covid-19 Pandemic in North Carolina”
Cho, Daniel, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Krista Perreira “Resilience of College Students: Effectiveness of Training Students to Cope with Typical College Adversity and Natural Disaster”
Eden, Tiffany, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth and Krista Perreira. “Transitions from High School to College: Learning How to Grow in the Age of Covid-19”