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Highlights
U-M is the only public and non-coastal university on Forbes' top-10 list for billionaire production
ASA President Bonilla-Silva takes exception with Chief Justice Roberts' 'gobbledygook' jab
Nobel laureate Angus Deaton, David Lam, and colleagues discuss global poverty, 10/5, 4pm
James Jackson named inaugural recipient of U-M Diversity Scholar Career Award
Mon, Oct 23, 2017, noon:
Carol Shiue, "Social Mobility in China, 1300-1800"
Brian Jacob
Funded Research:
A Randomized Evaluation of the State of Michigan's Community Ventures Program (Gates Foundation)
Training Program in Causal Inference in Education Policy Research at the University of Michigan (Education, U.S. Department of )
Training Faculty, Population Studies Center.
Professor, Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Professor, Education, School of Education.
Professor, Department of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Professor, Education Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Ph.D., University of Chicago
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 Faculty Research Fellow 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 labor markets.
For more information please see the personal and departmental pages for Brian Jacob at left.