
Román Andrés Zárate is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto. His research interests include labor economics and economics of education. He is currently involved in an SEII project that evaluating the effect of exam schools and affirmative action policies in Chicago. Roman received his PhD in economics at MIT […]
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Christopher Walters is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on labor economics and the economics of education, with emphasis on school performance at the primary and early childhood levels. Christopher has served as a co-author on several SEII studies of charter schools in Massachusetts. He received a […]
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Camille is Assistant Professor at HEC Lausanne. Her research focuses on the economics of education and labor economics. She is currently examining the recruitment of teachers, the centralized assignment process used to assign teachers to schools, the role of principals in colleges, and the impact of teachers’ gender biases on students’ performance. Camille attended the […]
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Peng is interested in developing quantitative methodologies for the betterment of society. His current research focuses on optimization in matching markets, with applications in school choice, public housing, and online marketplaces. His research on school choice has won multiple awards, including the ACM SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award, the INFORMS Public Sector Operations Best Paper Competition, […]
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Elizabeth Setren is the Gunnar Myrdal Assistant Professor of Economics at Tufts University. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from MIT. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER) and an Assistant Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Her work focuses on education and labor economics […]
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Amanda Pallais is the Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy and Social Studies in the Economics Department at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the barriers preventing workers from achieving efficient employment outcomes and students from optimally investing in human capital. Her research has explored the extent to which the cost of developing a reputation […]
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Yusuke Narita is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Yale University. His research interests center around the design of education and labor markets. He is a co-author on an SEII project that is exploring how randomness in school assignment opens the door to quasi-experimental research designs for the evaluation of school effectiveness. Narita received his Ph.D. in Economics from […]
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Jack Mountjoy is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Robert H. Topel Faculty Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research explores the economics and econometrics of education, labor markets, and social mobility. Prior to joining Chicago Booth, he completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Economics at Princeton University in the Industrial […]
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Peter Hull is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he researches topics in labor economics and applied econometrics. He is principally involved in SEII’s development of improved value-added models and “school finder” systems. Peter received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 2017. Prior to joining the University of Chicago […]
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Sally Hudson is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics at the University of Virginia. Sally is a labor economist with a focus on higher education finance and applied econometrics. She works closely with the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation on SEII projects. Sally received her Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2016 after […]
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