Caroline M. Hoxby
Scott and Donya Bommer Professor in Economics
Contact Info:
choxby@stanford.edu
Page in Stanford Directory
Phone: 650-725-8719
Office: Landau 246
Office hours: ON LEAVE Winter, Spring, and Fall 2010: contact Kelly Carson for appointment at Carson@stanford.edu
Interests
- Research:
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
- Teaching:
Public economics, economics of education, applied microeconomics
- Professional Affiliations:
NBER (Director, Economics of Education Program), Hoover Institution (Senior Fellow); AEA; Econometrics Society
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
(4) "The New York City Charter Schools Evaluation Project", NBER
(5) "The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges," forthcoming
List of Stanford Working Papers
Current Courses
| Autumn |
Education
Ph.D., MIT, M.Phil., University of Oxford; A.B., Harvard University
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