Dear NBER Economics of Education participants,
We are very sad to report that Rodney Andrews, an NBER affiliate and great
contributor to the Economics of Education program, died yesterday. We will
miss him greatly. I know that many of you benefited from working with him
on Texas schools' data. Whenever I wanted to understand Texas data or
wanted someone to lend expertise on a related project, Rodney was the first
person whom I asked. He was very generous with his time and wisdom, and he
helped many colleagues and graduate students. He will be sorely missed.
Here is what Jim Poterba, the President and CEO of the NBER, wrote about
him today.
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Dear Research Colleagues -
I am sorry to share the news that Rodney Andrews, a research associate
in the NBER's Labor Studies program and a faculty member at the
University of Texas at Dallas, passed away yesterday.
Andrews' research ranged widely. He was best known for his work on
education and labor market outcomes. He studied the effect of pre-K
programs on subsequent educational attainment, the impact of financial
aid and other factors on the likelihood of college attendance, and the
heterogeneous nature of pathways to college. He was also the director of
the Texas Schools Project.
Andrews received his undergraduate degree from the Georgia Institute of
Technology and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He was an
active contributor to the NBER and to many other research communities,
and he will be deeply missed.
Jim Poterba
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All good wishes, Caroline
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Caroline M. Hoxby
Scott & Donya Bommer Prof. of Economics and Senior Fellow of the Hoover
Institution
Director, Economics of Education, National Bureau of Economic Research
Department of Economics
Stanford University
Landau Building, 579 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford CA 94305
Received on Fri May 12 2023 - 16:48:14 EDT
