Publications

Mellon, G., 2025. “Competence over Partisanship: Party Affiliation Does not Affect the Selection of School District Superintendents”. American Sociological Review.

Rauscher, E., Mellon, G., Loeb, S., Abott, C. 2025. “When Money Matters Most: Unpacking the Effectiveness of School Spending”. Sociology of Education.

Rauscher, E. Mellon G., Hodgman, S. 2025. “School Spending and Student Achievement: Mechanisms“, Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Ciocca Eller, C., Khanna, K. & Mellon, G. 2024. “Intermediate Educational Transitions: A Novel Perspective on Inequality in Higher Education Outcomes”. Sociology of Education. 97 (4): 316 – 341.

Mellon, G., Siegler, B. 2023. “New Experimental Evidence on Anti-Asian Bias in White Parents’ School Preferences”. Sociology of Education. 96(4): 255-274.

Working Papers

Rauscher, E., Mellon, G., Loeb, S., “Priceless Benefits: Effects of School Spending on Child Mortality.” (Under Review)

Mellon, G., “Does School District Leadership Matter: Estimating Variation in Superintendent Effects on Achievement in the United States”

Elbers, B., Mellon, G., DiPrete, T. “The Narrowing Gender Gap in U.S. Corporate Governance: Tokenism or Inclusion?”

Mellon, G. School Board Partisanship and Support for Local Educational Funding

Reports

Schwartz, N., Kang, H., Loeb, S., Grissom, J., Bartanen, B., Cheatham, J., Chi, O., Donaldson, M., Lemos, R.F., Mellon, G., Moffitt, S., Nurshatayeva, A., Owens, J., Pinker, E., White, R., & Zimmerman, S. (2023). Studying the Superintendency: A Call for Research. Annenberg Institute at Brow

In Preparation

Mellon, G., DiPrete, T., “How Does Firm-level Sorting Contribute to the Gender Pay Gap? Changes from the 1990s-Present”

Rauscher, E., Mellon, G., Loeb, S., “Expert Knowledge on School Finance” (Data collection)

Mellon, G. “Employers’ Responses to Workday Breaks”

Mellon, G., Rauscher E. “Public Library Investments and Mortality”