Publications

Selected peer-reviewed articles, listed within each area from most to least recent. For the complete record—including book chapters, working papers, op-eds, and reports—see the CV or Google Scholar.

Mental Health & Crime

Emergency Mental-Health Co-Responders Reduce Involuntary Psychiatric Detentions in the US Thomas S. Dee and Jaymes Pyne. Nature Human Behaviour (2025)

A Community-Response Approach to Mental-Health and Substance-Abuse Crises Reduced Crime Thomas S. Dee and Jaymes Pyne. Science Advances (2022)

Engagement & Punishment in Schools

Teacher Mindsets and Student Sense of Classroom Belonging Jaymes Pyne, Eric Grodsky, Katie Eklund, Patti Schaefer, and Elizabeth Vaade. Journal of Early Adolescence (2024)

Teacher Perceptions of Past Classroom Behaviors Influence Adolescents’ Receptivity and Responsiveness to a Belonging Intervention Jaymes Pyne. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (2024)

A Gendered and Racialized Educational Hierarchy: Disparities in Elementary School Teachers’ Perceptions of Student Behavior Jaymes Pyne and Michela Musto. Social Forces (2023)

The Signaling Power of Unexcused Absence from School Jaymes Pyne, Eric Grodsky, Elizabeth Vaade, Bo McCready, Eric Camburn, and Dominique Bradley. Educational Policy (2023)

The Dynamic Effects of a Summer Learning Program on Behavioral Engagement in School Jaymes Pyne, Erica Messner, and Thomas S. Dee. Education Finance & Policy (2023)

A Replicable Identity-Based Intervention Helps Close the Black–White Suspension Gap at Scale Geoffrey D. Borman, Jaymes Pyne, Christopher S. Rozek, and Alex Schmidt. American Educational Research Journal (2022)

Gender Test Score Gaps Under Equal Behavioral Engagement Jaymes Pyne. Educational Researcher (2020)

Replicating a Scalable Intervention That Helps Students Reappraise Academic and Social Adversity During the Transition to Middle School Jaymes Pyne and Geoffrey D. Borman. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2020)

Reappraising Academic and Social Adversity Improves Middle-School Students’ Academic Achievement, Behavior, and Well-Being Geoffrey D. Borman, Christopher S. Rozek, Jaymes Pyne, and Paul Hanselman. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019)

Suspended Attitudes: Exclusion and Emotional Disengagement from School Jaymes Pyne. Sociology of Education (2019)

Assessing Malleable Social-Psychological Academic Attitudes in Early Adolescence Jaymes Pyne, Christopher S. Rozek, and Geoffrey D. Borman. Journal of School Psychology (2018)

What If Coleman Had Known About Stereotype Threat? How Social-Psychological Interventions Can Help Mitigate Educational Inequality Geoffrey D. Borman and Jaymes Pyne. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences (2016)

Inequality in Higher Education

Inequality and Opportunity in a Perfect Storm of Graduate Student Debt Jaymes Pyne and Eric Grodsky. Sociology of Education (2020)

Where’s the Crisis? How Undergraduate Enrollment Patterns Influence Growth in Student Debt Jaymes Pyne and Eric Grodsky. WCER Working Paper Series (2018; No. 2018-10)

Other

Madison Metropolitan School District’s Four-Year-Old Kindergarten Program: Patterns of Enrollment Jaymes Pyne, Eric Grodsky, Elizabeth Vaade, Eric Camburn, and Dominique Bradley. Madison Education Partnership (2017)

Preparing the Littlest Learners: Four-Year-Old Kindergarten Enrollment and Kindergarten Readiness in MMSD Eric Grodsky, Jaymes Pyne, Elizabeth Vaade, Eric Camburn, and Dominique Bradley. Madison Education Partnership (2017)

Comprehensive School Counseling Programs, Job Satisfaction, and the ASCA National Model Jaymes Pyne. Professional School Counseling (2011)

Youth and Character Development Claudia Sowa and Jaymes Pyne. Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations (2010)