DOMINIC JAMES BREWER
From September 2014
Gale and Ira Drukier Dean
Professor of Education, Economics and Policy (pending)
New York University
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
82 Washington Square East, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003
213.821.1953  212.998.5000  [email protected]
EDUCATION
PH.D. IN LABOR ECONOMICS, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, USA
 Dissertation: Teachers, Administrators, and Educational Productivity
MAY 1994

Advisors:
Ronald G. Ehrenberg (chair), David H. Monk, and George R. Boyer

Fields:
Labor economics, education finance and administration, economic history
M.A. IN ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE, USA
 Fields:
Labor economics, mathematical economics
DECEMBER 1989
B.A. (FIRST CLASS HONORS), OXFORD UNIVERSITY, U.K.
 Fields:
Philosophy, politics and economics
JUNE 1987
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SEPTEMBER 2014 – PRESENT
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE,
EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
September 2014 – Present
Gale and Ira Drukier Dean
AUGUST 2005 – AUGUST 2014
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Provost Committee for
Strategic Transformation
November 2012 – August 2014
Vice Dean of Research,
Partnerships and
Globalization, Rossier School
of Education
January 2012 – December 2013
Associate Dean of Research
and Faculty Affairs, Rossier
School of Education
January 2009 – December 2011
Co-Director
Policy Analysis for California
Education
June 2008 – August 2014
Clifford H. and Betty C. Allen
Professor in Urban Leadership
August 2005 – August 2014
Professor of Education,
Economics, and Policy
JULY 1994 – AUGUST 2005
November 2007 – August 2014
University Committee on
Academic Promotion and
Tenure
August 2006 – July 2013
Co-Director, Center on
Educational Governance,
August 2005 – December 2006
THE RAND CORPORATION
November 2004 – August 2005
Vice President
April 1999 – August 2005
Director, RAND Education,
Santa Monica, CA;
Senior Economist
APRIL 1995 – DECEMBER 2003
Research Director, RAND
Education, Washington, DC;
Economist
September 1998 – April 1999
Associate Economist, Santa
Monica, CA
July 1994 – August 1998
Professor of Policy Analysis,
RAND Graduate School
January 1997 – August 2005
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Visiting Professor of
Economics
September 2003 – December
2003
Visiting Associate Professor of
Economics
September 1999 – June 2003
Visiting Assistant Professor of
Economics
April 1995 – June 1998
AUGUST 1990 – MAY 1994
Research Assistant, Professor Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Department of Labor Economics, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
MAY 1989 – DECEMBER 1989
Consultant, National Economic Development Office
London
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FALL 1988 – SPRING 1990
Instructor and Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
AUGUST 1987 – AUGUST 1988
Research Assistant, Transport and General Workers’ Union
London
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS

Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Education Finance, Editor (with Lawrence O.
Picus), Sage, Forthcoming 2014.

Urban Education: A Model for Leadership and Policy, Editor (with Karen S. Gallagher,
Rodney Goodyear, and Robert Rueda), Routledge, 2011.

Economics of Education, Editor (with Patrick McEwan). Elsevier, 2010.

Education for a New Era (with Charles A. Goldman, Catherine H. Augustine, Gail L.
Zellman, Gery Ryan, Cathleen Stasz, and Louay Constant), RAND MG 548, 2007.

Charter School Operations and Performance: Evidence from California (with Ron Zimmer,
Richard Buddin, Derrick Chau, Brian Gill, et.al.). RAND MR 1700, 2003.

Rhetoric versus Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and
Charter Schools (with Brian Gill, Mike Timpane and Karen Ross). RAND MR 1118, 2001.
Second Edition, 2007.

In Pursuit of Prestige: Strategy and Competition in U.S. Higher Education (with Susan
Gates and Charles Goldman). Transaction Press, 2001.
PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

“The Role of Politics and Governance in Education Accountability Systems” (with Kieran
Killeen and Richard Welsh), Education Finance and Policy, July 2013.

“The Global Phenomenon of Publicly Financed, Privately Operated Schools: Common
Policy Issues among Differing Nation States?” (with Guilbert Hentschke) Journal of School
Choice, Winter 2010.

“The Intellectual Foundations of Education: Core Journals and Their Impacts on
Scholarship and Practice” (with Rodney Goodyear, Karen Symms Gallagher, et.al.)
Educational Researcher, Winter 2009, Vol. 38, No. 9: 700-706.

“A Framework for Understanding Educational Governance” (with Joanna Smith).
Education Finance and Policy, Winter 2008, Vol. 3, No. 1: 20-40.

“An Introduction to Early College” (with Stefanie Stern and June Ahn), Education Finance
and Policy. Spring 2007, Vol. 2, No. 2: 175-187.
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“Florida’s Constitutional Amendment to Reduce Class Size: What Can Research Tell Us?”
Florida Institute of Education Policy Briefs, pp. 65-78, June 2005.

“The Teacher Labor Market and Teacher Quality” (with Eric R. Eide and Dan D.
Goldhaber), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 230-244, Summer
2004.

“Private Resources in Public Schools” (with Ron Zimmer and Cathy Krop), Journal of
Education Finance, Vol. 28, pp. 485-521, Spring 2003.

“Does Class Size Matter?” (with Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Adam Gamoran and Doug Willms),
Scientific American, Vol. 285, No. 5, pp. 66-73, November 2001.

“Class Size and Student Achievement” (with Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Adam Gamoran and
Doug Willms), Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Vol. 2, No.1, Fall 2001.

“The Evidence on Teacher Certification: A Rejoinder” (with Dan D. Goldhaber),
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 79-86, 2001.

“Teacher Certification and Student Achievement” (with Dan D. Goldhaber), Educational
Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 129-145, Summer 2000.

“How Should We Measure the Effect of Ability Grouping on Student Performance?” (with
Daniel I. Rees and Laura M. Argys), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp.
17-20, February 1999.

“Do
Faculty Connect School to Work?” (with Maryann Gray), Educational Evaluation and
Policy Analysis, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 405-416, 1999.

“A Three-Way Error Components Analysis of Educational Productivity” (with Dan D.
Goldhaber and Deborah J. Anderson), Education Economics, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 199-208,
1999.

“How Much Does It Cost To Reduce Class Size? A National Perspective” (with Cathy
Krop, Brian Gill and Robert Reichardt), Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol.
21, No. 2, pp. 179-192, Summer 1999.

“Testing for Sample Selection in Private Schooling” (with Dan D. Goldhaber, Eric R. Eide,
and Daniel I. Rees), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 25-268, 1999.

“Does it Pay to Attend an Elite Private College? Evidence on the Effects of College Type
on Earnings” (with Eric R. Eide and Ronald G. Ehrenberg), Journal of Human Resources.
Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 104-123, 1999. Also published as National Bureau of Economic
Research Working Paper No. 5613, June 1996.

“Does it Pay to Attend an Elite Private College? Evidence on the Effects of Undergraduate
College Quality on Graduate School Attendance” (with Eric R. Eide and Ronald G.
Ehrenberg), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 371-376, 1998.

“Work-Based Learning: Student Perspectives on Quality and Links to Schools” (with
Cathleen Stasz), Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 31-46,
Spring 1998. (RAND RP-727).
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
“Why Don’t Schools and Teachers Seem to Matter?
Assessing the Impact of
Unobservables on Educational Productivity” (with Dan D. Goldhaber), Journal of Human
Resources, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 505-523, 1997.

“Detracking America’s Schools: Equity at Zero Cost?” (with Daniel I. Rees and Laura M.
Argys), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 623-645, Fall
1996. (RAND RP-579-IET).

“Does it Pay to Attend an Elite Private College: Evidence from the Senior High School
Class of 1980” (with Ronald G. Ehrenberg), Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 15, pp.
239-271, 1996.

“Does More School District Administration Lower Educational Productivity? Some
Evidence on the ‘Administrative Blob’ in New York Public Schools,” Economics of
Education Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 111-124, 1996 (RAND RP-546-IET).

“Career Paths and Quit Decisions: Evidence from Teaching,” Journal of Labor Economics,
Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 313-339, 1996 (RAND RP-525-IET).

“Tracking in the United States: Descriptive Statistics from NELS 88” (with Daniel I. Rees
and Laura M. Argys), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 83-89, 1996.
(RAND RP-524-IET).

“Do Teachers’ Race, Gender, and Ethnicity Matter? Evidence from NELS88” (with Ronald
G. Ehrenberg and Dan D. Goldhaber), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 48, No.
3, pp. 547-561, 1995. (RAND RP-412). Also published as National Bureau of Economic
Research Working Paper No. 4669, March 1994.

“Did Teacher Verbal Ability and Race Matter in the 1960s? Coleman Revisited” (with
Ronald G. Ehrenberg), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 1-21, 1995.
(RAND RP-413). Also published as National Bureau of Economic Research Working
Paper No. 4293, March 1995.

“Do School and Teacher Characteristics Matter? Evidence from High School and Beyond”
(with Ronald G. Ehrenberg), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-17,
March 1994.

“Institutional Responses to Changes in External Funding for Graduate Students” (with
Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Daniel I. Rees), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LXXV,
No. 4, pp. 671-682, 1993 (RAND RP-380-IET).

“Principals and Student Outcomes: Evidence from U.S. High Schools” Economics of
Education Review, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 281-292, 1993.
OTHER JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Editor’s Introduction” (with Bruce Fuller and Susanna Loeb) Educational Evaluation and
Policy Analysis, Spring 2010.

“Paul Hill: Reinventing Our Ideas About Public Education” (with Robin Lake) Journal of
School Choice, Vol. 4, No. 1: 3-4, January 2010.
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
“Examining the Incentives in Educational Research” (with Dan Goldhaber). Phi Delta
Kappan. January 2008, Vol. 89, No. 5: 361-4.

“The Global Phenomenon of Publicly-financed, Privately-operated Schools” (with Guilbert
Hentschke), Futures in Urban Ed, Winter/Spring 2009.

“Charter Schools Come of Age” (with Priscilla Wohlstetter), Urban Ed, Fall/Winter 2005.

“Which is a Better Investment? Prestige or Reputation” (with Charles Goldman and Susan
Gates), Chronicle of Higher Education, pp. B13-15, October 2001.

“When Should We Reward Teachers’ Degrees?” (with Dan D. Goldhaber), Phi Delta
Kappan, Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 134-138, October 1998.

“The Reform without Cost? A Reply to Our Critics” (with Daniel I. Rees and Laura M.
Argys), Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 77, No. 6, pp. 442-444, February 1996. (RAND RP-523IET).

“Detracking America’s Schools: The Reform without Cost?” (with Daniel I. Rees and Laura
M. Argys), Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 210-215, November 1995. Reprinted in
Network News and Views (Hudson Institute), Vol. XV, No. 1/2, pp. 16-19,
January/February 1996. (RAND RP-523-IET).
BOOK CHAPTERS

“Allocative Efficiency” (with Richard Welsh). In D. Brewer and L. Picus (Eds.) Encyclopedia
of Education Economics and Finance. SAGE Publications, Forthcoming 2014.

“Economic Cost” (with Richard Welsh). In D. Brewer and L. Picus (Eds.) Encyclopedia of
Education Economics and Finance. SAGE Publications, Forthcoming 2014.

“Economics of Education” (with Richard Welsh). In D. Brewer and L. Picus (Eds.)
Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance. SAGE Publications, Forthcoming
2014.

“Elasticity” (with Richard Welsh). In D. Brewer and L. Picus (Eds.) Encyclopedia of
Education Economics and Finance. SAGE Publications, Forthcoming 2014.

“Elementary and Secondary Education Act” (with Tenice Hardaway and Quynh Le Tien). In
D. Brewer and L. Picus (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance. SAGE
Publications, Forthcoming 2014.

“Factor Prices” (with Richard Welsh). In D. Brewer and L. Picus (Eds.) Encyclopedia of
Education Economics and Finance. SAGE Publications, Forthcoming 2014.

“No Child Left Behind” (with Matthew Duque). In D. Brewer and L. Picus (Eds.)
Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance. SAGE Publications, Forthcoming
2014.

“School Boards” (with Michelle Hall). In D. Brewer and L. Picus (Eds.) Encyclopedia of
Education Economics and Finance. SAGE Publications, Forthcoming 2014.
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
“Teacher Autonomy” (with Matthew Duque). In D. Brewer and L. Picus (Eds.) Encyclopedia
of Education Economics and Finance. SAGE Publications, Forthcoming 2014.

“Theory of the Markets” (with Richard Welsh). In D. Brewer and L. Picus (Eds.)
Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance. SAGE Publications, Forthcoming
2014.

How Californians View Education Standards, Testing and Accountability: Results from the
Third PACE/Rossier Poll” (with David Plank, Morgan Polikoff, and Michelle Hall). Palo Alto,
CA: PACE, Forthcoming 2013.

How Californians Feel about Public Education: Results from the PACE/USC Rossier
August 2012 Poll. Palo Alto, CA: PACE, October 2012.

“Teacher Intelligence: What is it and why do we care?” (with Andrew McEachin). In J.
Hattie and E. Anderman (Eds.) International Handbook of Student Achievement.
Routledge, 2012.

“Streamlining State and Federal Regulations” in College 2.0: An Entrepreneurial Approach
to Reforming Higher Education. Overcoming Barriers and Fostering Innovation. Kauffman
Foundation, June 2012.

“Recent Developments in California’s Educational Governance: 2007-2011” (with Richard
Welsh). In Getting Down to Facts: Five Years Later. Palo Alto, CA: PACE, May 2012.

“Economics of urban education” (with Andrew McEachin). In K. Gallagher, R. Goodyear,
D. Brewer & R. Rueda (Eds.) Urban Education: A Model for Leadership and Policy.
Routledge, 2011.

“Barriers to Innovation in U.S. Higher Education” (with William G. Tierney). In B. Wildavsky
and A. Kelly (Eds.) Reinventing Higher Education. Harvard Education Press, 2011.

Preface (with Patrick McEwan). In D. Brewer and P. McEwan (Eds.) Economics of
Education. Elsevier, 2010.

“Theoretical Concepts in the Economics of Education” (with Guilbert C. Hentschke and
Eric R. Eide). In D. Brewer and P. McEwan (Eds.) Economics of Education. Elsevier, 2010.

“Teacher Quality in Education Production” (with Icela Pelayo). In D. Brewer and P.
McEwan (Eds.) Economics of Education. Elsevier, 2010.

“An Introduction to Qatar’s Primary and Secondary Education Reform” (with Charles A.
Goldman). In Osama Abi-Mershed (Ed.) Trajectories of Education in the Arab World.
Routledge, 2010.

“What Do We Know about Teachers in Charter Schools?” (with June Ahn). In P. Hill and J.
Betts (Eds.) Taking Measure of Charter Schools. Lanham, MD: R & L Education, 2010.

“School and Class Size: Evidence and Issues” (with June Ahn). In G. Sykes, B.
Schneider, and D. Plank (Eds.) Handbook on Educational Policy Research. Routledge,
2009.
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
“The Imperative and Challenges of Large Scale Education Reform: The Case of Qatar”
(with Charles A. Goldman).
In O. Abi-Mershed (Ed.) Trajectories of Education.
Georgetown University Press, 2009.

“The Global Phenomenon of Government-Financed, Privately-Operated Schools” (with
Guilbert C. Hentschke). In M. Berends (Ed.) Handbook of Research on School Choice.
Routledge, 2009.

“School Reform in Los Angeles: Signs of Progress” (with Andrew McEachin and Icela
Pelayo). In Los Angeles 2008: State of the City Report. Los Angeles, CA: Pat Brown
Institute, 2008.

“Recent Developments in California’s Educational Governance” (with Icela Pelayo and
June Ahn). In Conditions of Education in California, 2008. Berkeley, CA: PACE, 2008.

“The Role of Economics in Education Policy Research” (with Guilbert Hentschke, Eric
Eide, Michelle Nayfack, and Chuan Ally Kuzin). In H. Ladd and E. Fiske (Eds.) Handbook
of Research in Education Finance and Policy. Routledge, 2008.

“What Gets Studied and Why: Examining the Incentives that Drive Education Research”
(with Dan D. Goldhaber). In F. Hess (Ed.) The Politics of Knowledge, Bloomington, IL: Phi
Delta Kappan, 2008.

“Making the Most of Charter School Governance” (with Joanna Smith, Priscilla
Wohlstetter). In R. Lake (Ed.) Hopes, Fears and Realities: A Balanced Look at American
Charter Schools in 2007. Seattle, WA: Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2007.

“Section 3: Charter School Effects on Student Achievement” (with June Ahn). In M.
Berends, M.G. Springer, and H.J. Walberg (Eds.), Charter School Outcomes. Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates/Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.

“Improving Longitudinal Data on Student Achievement: Some Lessons from Using NELS88” (with Dan D. Goldhaber), Analytic Issues in the Assessment of Student Achievement.
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, 2000.

“School Choice in Milwaukee" (with Dan D. Goldhaber and Eric R. Eide). In Developments
in School Finance, 1998. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, NCES, 2000.

“Teacher Characteristics” (with Robert Reichardt). In G.W. Bohrnstedt and B.M. Stecher
(Eds.) Class Size Reduction in California: Early Evaluation Findings 1996-1998. (CSR
Research Consortium, Year 1 Evaluation Report), Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for
Research, pp. 61-80, 1999.

“State Licensing and Student Achievement” (with Dan D. Goldhaber). In Better Teachers,
Better Schools, pp. 83-102. Washington, DC: Fordham Foundation, 1999.

“Evaluating the Effect of Teacher Degree Level on Educational Performance” (with Dan D.
Goldhaber). In Developments in School Finance, 1996. Washington, DC: U.S. Department
of Education, NCES, 1997.

“The Reform Without Cost? A Reply to Our Critics” and “Detracking America’s Schools:
The Reform Without Cost” (with Daniel I. Rees and Laura M. Argys). Reprinted in S.
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Schaffer (Ed.), Gifted Students and Inclusion: Exploring the Tracking Debate, Indianapolis,
IN: Center for Evaluation Development and Research. Phi Delta Kappa, pp. 111-120,
December 1996. Also reprinted in J. Noll (Ed.), Taking Sides: Clashing Views on
Controversial Educational Issues. Dushkin, 1997.
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“Educational Achievement and Teacher Qualifications: New Evidence from Micro Level
Data” (with Dan D. Goldhaber). In B.S. Cooper and S.T. Speakman (Eds.), Optimizing
Education Resources. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, pp. 389-410, 1996.

“Enhancing Opportunity to Learn Measures in NCES Data” (with Cathleen Stasz). In From
Data to Information: New Directions for the National Center for Education Statistics,
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, NCES 96-901, pp. 3-1–3-28, 1996
(RAND RP-581-IET).

“How Would Universities Respond to Increased Funding for Graduate Students?” (with
Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Daniel I. Rees). In C. Clotfelter and M. Rothschild (Eds.),
Studies of Supply and Demand in Higher Education, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
pp. 183-210, 1993. Also published as National Bureau of Economic Research Working
Paper No. 3741, June 1991.
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“Incentives for the Low-Paid: Setting the Scene” (with Alex Bowen and Ken Mayhew). In A.
Bowen and K. Mayhew (Eds.), Improving Incentives for the Low-Paid, London: MacMillan,
pp. 1-54, 1990.
RAND REPORTS/OTHER MONOGRAPHS

New Orleans Achievement Time Trends 2007-2011 (with Andrew McEachin and Richard
Welsh). Report presented to the Walton Family Foundation, September 2012.

Organizing Effective Educational Accountability: The Case of Oklahoma (with Kieran
Killeen). Report presented to Oklahoma Business and Education Coalition. January 2009.

Evaluating the “Crazy Quilt”: Educational Governance in California (with Joanna Smith).
Report prepared for the Irvine, Gates, Stuart and Hewlett Foundations as part of a series
of studies in support of the California Governor’s Advisory Committee on Education
Excellence. November 2006.

Key Issues in Studying Charter school and Achievement: A Review and Suggestions for
National Guidelines (with Julian Betts, Paul T. Hill, et al). National Charter School
Research Project, Seattle: University of Washington. White Paper Series No. 2, May
2006.

A Review of the Research Literature on Teacher Recruitment and Retention (with
Cassandra M. Guarino, Lucrecia Santibanez and Glenn A. Daley), RAND TR-164, 2004.

Private Giving to Public Schools and Districts in Los Angeles County (with Ron Zimmer,
Cathy Krop, Tessa Kaganoff and Karen Ross), RAND MR-1429, 2001.

Sexual Orientation Fairness in the California Court System (with Maryann Gray), for the
Judicial Council of California, 2001.
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Who’s Teaching, and Who Will Teach, Vocational Education? (with Cassandra M. Guarino
and Anders Hove), RAND RP-901, 2000.

An Examination of the Role of Student Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education Since 1972
(with Eric R. Eide and Dan D. Goldhaber). Monograph prepared for the Public Policy
Institute of California. Working paper, August, 1999.

Academic Skills at Work: Two Perspectives (with Cathleen Stasz), RAND RP-805, 1999.

Class Size Reduction Policies and Rising Enrollments: Cost Implications Over the Next
Decade (with Thomas Parrish and others), Draft Final Report to U.S. Congress, August
1998.

Potentially Eligible Students: A Growing Opportunity for University of California (with Cathy
Krop, Susan Gates, Brian Gill, Robert Reichardt, Melora Sundt, Dan Throgmortan), RAND
PM-808-ED, April 1998.

In Pursuit of Prestige: Strategy and Competition in U.S. Higher Education (with Susan
Gates and Charles Goldman), RAND DRR-1680/1 and DRR-1680/2, Revised, February
1998.

Connecting College and Community in the New Economy? An Analysis of Community
College Faculty-Labor Market Linkages (with Maryann Gray), RAND RP-663.

Issue Brief on Financial Aid and Tuition Policy in California (with Tessa Kaganoff), RAND
DRU-1595-IET, January 1997.

Are Business Schools Meeting Customer Demands? The Expectations and Experiences
of Graduate Management Students (with David Finegold), report prepared for Graduate
Management Admission Council (GMAC), June 1996.

The Impact of Ability Grouping on High School Student Achievement: An Analysis of NELS
Data (with Daniel I. Rees and Laura M. Argys), NCES Working Paper, 1996.

Education Reform in Los Angeles County Schools: A Descriptive Survey (with Brent
Boultinghouse, Kimberly Ramsey, and Elan Melamid), RAND DRR-1256-IET, 1995.

The Fiscal and Demographic Environment of the California State University at Northridge
(with Stephen Carroll, Dana Soloff, and Debra Strong), RAND MR-624-CSUN/LE, 1995.

Increasing Hispanic Participation in Higher Education: A Desirable Public Investment (with
Stephen Sorensen, Stephen Carroll, and Eugene Bryton), RAND Issue Paper IP-152,
September 1995.
BOOK REVIEWS

Review of R. Chakrabarti and P.E. Peterson (eds.) “School Choice International: Exploring
Public-Private Partnerships,” Journal of School Choice, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2009.

Review of Jos L. T. Blank (eds.) (with Ron Zimmer) “Public Provision and Performance:
Contributions from Efficiency and Productivity Measurement,” Economics of Education
Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2002.
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Review of Nan Maxwell and Victor Rubin “High School Career Academies: A Pathway to
Educational Reform in Urban School Districts,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol.
55, No. 1, 2001.

Review of National Research Council, “Making Money Matter,” Journal of Economic
Literature, 2000.

Review of William T. Hartman and William L. Boyd (eds.) “Resource Allocation and
Productivity in Education,” Economics of Education Review, 2000.

Review of Christopher Jencks and Merideth Phillips (eds.) “The Black-White Test Score
Gap,” Georgetown Public Policy Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1999.

Review of Dale Ballou and Michael Podgursky, “Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality,”
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 51, No. 2, 1998.

Review of Charles B. Teddlie and Samuel C. Stringfield, “Schools Make a Difference:
Lessons Learned from a Ten-Year Study of School Effects,” Economics of Education
Review, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1997.

Review of William Darity, Jr. (Ed.), “Labor Economics: Problems in Analyzing Labor
Markets,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 49, No.2, 1996.

Review of Emily P. Hoffman (Ed.), “Essays on the Economics of Education,” Industrial and
Labor Relations Review, Vol. 48, No. 3, 1995.

Review of David W. Hornbeck and Lester M. Salaman (Eds.), “Human Capital and
America’s Future,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 46, No. 2, 1993.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS and HONORS
CO-DIRECTOR
 Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), a policy research collaboration of USC,
UC-Berkeley and Stanford, 2008 – August 2014.
EDITOR
 Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, July 2009 – June 2012
 Journal of School Choice, Guest Editor, Special Issue December, 2010
 International Encyclopedia of Education, Section Editor on Economics of Education (with
Patrick McEwan). Elsevier, 2010
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
 Economics of Education Review, September 1998 – December 2003; August 2005 –
February 2008
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER
 Economics of Education Review, January 2004 – August 2005
 Journal of School Choice, August 2008 – Present
 Education, Finance and Policy, 2010 – Present
 Journal of Education Finance, June 2011 – Present
 Educational Researcher, 2013 – Present
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BOOK REVIEWER
 Journal of Economic Literature
 Education Next
 Economics of Education Review
 Industrial and Labor Relations Review
 Georgetown Public Policy Review
REFEREE
 American Economic Review
 American Educational Research Journal
 Education Finance and Policy
 Labour Economics
 Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
 Journal of Human Resources
 Review of Economics and Statistics
 Journal of Labor Economics
 Economics of Education Review
 Education Economics
 Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
 Educational Policy
 Journal of Econometrics
 Journal of Public Economics
 Oxford Economic Papers
 Industrial and Labor Relations Review
 Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
 Research in Labor Economics
 Review of Higher Education
 Canadian Journal of Economics
 Leadership and Policy in Schools
 Educational Policy
 Southern Economic Journal
REVIEWER
 Association for Education Finance and Policy
 National Research Council
 National Science Foundation
 American Education Research Association
 U.S. Department of Education
 Russell Sage Foundation
 Carnegie Corporation of New York
 Smith Richardson Foundation
 Spencer Foundation
 Harvard Education Press
 W.M. Keck Foundation
 Hewlett Foundation
 National Center for Education Statistics
 Oxford University Press
 Routledge
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PANEL/COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS/ADVISORY BOARDS
 President-elect, Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), 2013–2015;
Elected Board Member, 2009-2012
 Board Member, Education Sector, 2012 – September 2013
 American Enterprise Institute Future of American Education, 2005 – present
 What Works Clearinghouse, Advisory Panel on Class Size, August 2009
 Institute for Education Sciences, Education Systems and Reform Scientific Review
Standing Panel, October 2005 – September 2007; October 2008 – 2011
 U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Education Finance
Technical Review Panel, 2006
 Charter School Research Consensus Panel, Nation Charter School Research Project,
January 2006-2012
 American Education Research Association Division L, Chair Nominations Committee
2005-2006; Dissertation Award Committee Member, 2005-2006; Program Selection Chair,
Section 6 2006-2007; Dissertation Award Committee Chair, 2006-2007; Program Chair,
2007-2008
ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
 American Educational Research Association, 1992 – 2013
 Association for Education Finance and Policy, 1992 – present
 American Economic Association, 1998 – 2006
 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 1994 – 2008
 Association for the Study of Higher Education, 1996 – 1997
 Western Economic Association, 1995 – 2000
HONORS
 American Educational Research Association, Fellow, 2011 – present
 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Elected Member, 2010 – present
 RAND President’s Medal, 2003
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