Program Director
Caroline M. Hoxby is the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Her research spans the field of education economics, including K-12 as well as college. She has been an NBER affiliate since 1994.
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Over the past decade, “free college” programs have expanded rapidly across the United States, with more than 20 states adopting some form of tuition-free...
Between 2004 and 2022, the share of community colleges offering bachelor's degrees increased from 2.1 percent to 16.5 percent, and the number of bachelor...
Two years after the imposition of a student cell phone ban, student test scores in a large urban school district were significantly higher than before, David N...