Brian Jacob
Professor, School of Education; Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Professor, Department of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
(on sabbatical fall 2012 - winter 2013)
Brian Jacob is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Director of the Center on Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an Executive Committee Member of the National Poverty Center. He has previously served as a policy analyst in the NYC Mayor's Office and taught middle school in East Harlem. His primary fields of interest are labor economics, program evaluation, and the economics of education. His current research focuses on urban school reform and teacher labor markets. In recent work, he has examined school choice, education accountability programs, housing vouchers, and teacher promotion policies. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago.
Jacob teaches courses in the following program(s): Education and Statistics (Dual Degree).
Affiliations
Research Affiliations
- National Poverty Center
- Population Studies Center
- Michigan Consortium for Educational Research
- Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)
Projects
Grants
| 7/1/2011 - ongoing | Center for the Study of Postsecondary Education and Employment Granting Agency: Institute of Education Sciences |
| 3/1/2011 - 2/29/2012 | Post-Doctoral Training Program in Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Methods for Education Research Granting Agency: U.S. Department of Education |
| 3/1/2010 - ongoing | The Impact of the Michigan Merit Curriculum and Promise Scholarship Granting Agency: Institute of Education Sciences |
| 3/1/2012 - ongoing | Why are Some Charter Schools More Effective than Others? Econometric Methods and Empirical Evidence from Massachusetts, Michigan, and Texas Granting Agency: Institute of Education Sciences |
Last edited by Elena Godin on Thu, August 23, 2012 - 3:40:57
News:
May 03, 2013
Brian Jacob and Peter Bahr receive Global Challenges for a Third Century grant
February 08, 2013
Study by Brian Jacob, Brian McCall, and Kevin Stange cited in Time and WSJ
February 01, 2013
