Stange and Turner Join US Department of Education

Kevin Stange and Lesley Turner, both affiliates of the Economics of Education Program, have joined the newly created Office of the Chief Economist at the US Department of Education. This office is tasked with “conducting rigorous research to further key elements of the Department’s learning agenda.”

Stange, an associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan‘s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and Turner, an associate professor of economics at Vanderbilt University, will be on leave from the NBER for the duration of their government service.