Ph.D., Economics, Nuffield College, Oxford
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Expertise: secondary education, comparative education, labor markets & education, school choice

Biography

Damon Clark is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Florida. He was previously a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Labor Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and received his Ph.D. from Nuffield College, Oxford. His research interests include the economics of education, health economics and labor economics.

Dr. Clark’s research has focused mainly on high schools. At Berkeley he worked on a project entitled “Politics, Markets and Schools: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Autonomy and Competition from a Truly Revolutionary UK Reform”. This work analyzed the impact of a radical U.K. reform that allowed public high schools to become quasi-independent. Since moving to Florida Professor Clark has analyzed selective high schools in the U.K. (funded by a National Association of Education/Spencer Post Doctoral Fellowship) and high school exit exams in the U.S. (with Paco Martorell, funded by a grant from the Institute of Educational Sciences). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Nuffield College in Oxford, UK.