Scott Carrell’s research focuses on the effect of school inputs,
peer effects and barriers to college.
He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of
Economic Research in the Economics of Education group and a
Research Fellow at Institute for the Study of Labor. He spent ten
years as an active duty officer in the U.S. Air Force and is
currently a Major in the Air Force Reserves.
Carrell joined the faculty at UC Davis in 2007. He previously
taught at Dartmouth College and the U.S. Air Force Academy and
served as the Senior Economist for Public Finance and Labor
Economics on the staff of the President’s Council of Economic
Advisers during the summer of 2004.
Carrell received his degree in Economics from the University of
Florida in 2003.
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Among OECD countries, the United States has fallen from 1st (in 1990) to 9th (in 2016) in terms of the percentage of working age individuals with a bachelor’s degree.This makes interventions that promote college attendance in the U.S. a top policy priority. The benefits of a college education are widely known.
Among OECD countries, the United States has fallen from 1st (in 1990) to 9th (in 2016) in terms of the percentage of working age individuals with a bachelor’s degree.This makes interventions that promote college attendance in the U.S. a top policy priority. The benefits of a college education are widely known.
Among OECD countries, the United States has fallen from 1st (in 1990) to 9th (in 2016) in terms of the percentage of working age individuals with a bachelor’s degree.[1] This makes interventions that promote college attendance in the U.S. a top policy priority. The benefits of a college education are widely known.
DAVIS, Calif. — Center for Poverty Research faculty
affiliates in education and economics have been awarded nearly $5
million to find out how well the state prepares K-12 students for
college and careers.
Domestic violence is a significant problem in the U.S. It leads
to serious medical and emotional costs for victims and their
children, but also has important negative spillovers. Our new
work finds that exposure to a higher proportion of peers
experiencing domestic violence during primary school leads to
lower academic achievement in the long-run, even after moving to
schools with a mixed peer composition.
In this podcast, visiting scholar Caroline Hoxby discusses her
Expanding College Opportunities Project with UC Davis Professor
of Economics Scott Carrell and Associate Professor of Education
Michal Kurlaender, including the project’s interventions with
college-bound, low-income, high-achieving students.
