CAROLINE M. HOXBY
Scott and Donya Bommer Professor in Economics

Ph.D., MIT; M.Phil., University of Oxford; A.B., Harvard University.

Research Interests: Economics of education, public economics, labor economics.

Current Research: Effects of education on economic growth; the market for college education; school finance; school choice; financial aid in higher education; peer effects; local public finance; property taxation.

Representative Recent Publications: (1) “Pulled Away or Pushed Out? Explaining the Decline of Teacher Aptitude in the United States,” American Economic Review, 93.2, 204; (2) “Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities,”Journal of Political Economy, 112.2, 2004; (3) “Do and Should Financial Aid Decisions Affect Students’ College Choices?” in College Choices: The New Economics of Choosing, Attending, and Completing College University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Teaching Interests: Public economics, economics of education, applied microeconomics.

Professional Affiliations: NBER (Director, Economics of Education Program), Hoover Institution (Senior Fellow); AEA; Econometrics Society.