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.
Featured Program Content
Proximity to a community college impacts college enrollment and degree completion, particularly for minority and low-income students. Consequently,...
The role of standardized tests in college admissions has been a subject of intense discussion and evolving policies for some time. While proponents argue...
Girls are more likely to go to college than boys. One explanation for this pattern is that boys have weaker noncognitive skills, such as self-discipline, than...