Education
Education is one of the biggest factors in determining a person’s economic outcome. And the trajectory for high- or low-wage workers doesn’t begin in college, or even high school. Starting in preschool, the youngest learners are set on an educational path that can have a profound impact on their earning potential as adults. At SIEPR, researchers draw on their economic expertise to study how people invest in education, and how educational opportunities evolve due to policy and competition. SIEPR scholars also quantify the effects that education has on other important outcomes in developed and developing nations around the world.
Keywords: early childhood, K-12, higher education, human capital
People in Education Research
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Associate Professor of Economics
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- Althoff, L. (2025). America’s got talent: The case for investing in public education. Policy Brief.
- Althoff, L., Gray, H., & Reichardt, H. (2025). America’s Rise in Human Capital Mobility. Working Paper.
- Dewey, D., Fahle, E., Kane, T., Reardon, S., & Staiger, D. (2024). Federal Pandemic Relief and Academic Recovery. Working Paper.
- Kaiser, T., & Lusardi, A. (2024). Financial Literacy and Financial Education: An Overview. Working Paper.
- Ahmed, S., Goda, G. ., Hahn, M., & Hehmeyer, P. (2023). Following the rules: Connecting academic research to policy. Policy Brief.
- Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L. ., Jácome, E. ., Pérez, S., & Torres, J. . (2023). Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1850–2020. Working Paper.
- Barrero, J. ., Bloom, N., & Davis, S. . (2023). The Evolution of Working from Home. Working Paper.
- Gottlieb, J., Polyakova, M., Rinz, K., Shiplett, H., & Udalova, V. (2023). Who Values Human Capitalists’ Human Capital? The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians. Working Paper.
- Hanushek, E. (2022). A simple and complete solution to the learning loss problem . Policy Brief.
- Athey, S., & Palikot, E. (2022). Effective and scalable programs to facilitate labor market transitions for women in technology. Working Paper.
- Bettinger, E., Fairlie, R., Kapuza, A., Kardanova, E., Loyalka, P., & Zakharov, A. (2022). Does EdTech Substitute for Traditional Learning? Experimental Estimates of the Educational Production Function. Working Paper.
- Gust, S., Woessmann, L., & Hanushek, E. . (2022). Global Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implications for World Development. Working Paper.
- Brodeur, A., Cook, N. ., Hartley, J. ., & Heyes, A. (2022). Do Pre-Registration and Pre-analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias?. Working Paper.
- Bulman, G., & Fairlie, R. (2022). The Impact of COVID-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success: Evidence from California Administrative Data . Working Paper.
- Bates, M., Dinerstein, M., Johnston, A., & Sorkin, I. (2022). Teacher Labor Market Equilibrium and Student Achievement. Working Paper.
- Otero, S. ., Barahona, N., & Dobbin, C. (2021). Affirmative Action in Centralized College Admission Systems: Evidence from Brazil . Working Paper.
- Diamond, R., & Moretti, E. (2021). Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption. Working Paper.
- Einav, L., Finkelstein, A., & Mahoney, N. (2021). The IO of Selection Markets. Working Paper.
- Dupas, P., Modestino, A. S., Niederle, M., Wolfers, J., & Collective, S. D. (2021). Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars. Working Paper.
- Oliver, D., Fairlie, R., Millhauser, G., & Roland, R. (2021). Minority Student and Teaching Assistant Interactions in STEM. Working Paper.
- Jha, S., & Shayo, M. (2021). Trading Stocks Builds Financial Confidence and Compresses the Gender Gap. Working Paper.
- Larsen, B., Ju, Z., Kapor, A., & Yu, C. (2020). The Effect of Occupational Licensing Stringency on the Teacher Quality Distribution. Working Paper.
- Cabral, M., Kim, B., Rossin-Slater, M., Schnell, M., & Schwandt, H. (2020). Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students’ Human Capital and Economic Outcomes. Working Paper.
- Bulman, G., Fairlie, R., Goodman, S., & Isen, A. (2020). Parental Resources and College Attendance: Evidence from Lottery Wins. Working Paper.
- Robles, S., Gross, M., & Fairlie, R. (2020). The Effect of Course Shutouts on Community College Students: Evidence from Waitlist Cutoffs. Working Paper.
- Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L., Eriksson, K., Feigenbaum, J., & Pérez, S. (2020). Automated Linking of Historical Data. Working Paper.
- Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L., Jácome, E., & Pérez, S. (2020). Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries. Working Paper.
- Abramitzky, R., Lavy, V., & Pérez, S. (2020). The Long-Term Spillover Effects of Changes in the Return to Schooling. Working Paper.
- Abramitzky, R., & Halaburda, H. (2020). Were Jews in Interwar Poland More Educated?. Working Paper.
- Ma, Y., Fairlie, R., Loyalka, P., & Rozelle, S. (2020). Isolating the "Tech" from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China. Working Paper.
- Rossin-Slater, M., Schnell, M., Schwandt, H., Trejo, S., & Uniat, L. (2019). Local Exposure to School Shootings and Youth Antidepressant Use. Working Paper.
- Schwandt, H. (2019). Recession Graduates: The Long-lasting Effects of an Unlucky Draw. Policy Brief.
- Hoxby, C., & Turner, S. (2019). Measuring opportunity in U.S. higher education. Working Paper.
- Dee, T., & Murphy, M. (2018). Vanished classmates: the effects of local immigration enforcement on student enrollment. Working Paper.
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