Knight-Ridder Professor of Economics, University of Florida

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

figlio@ufl.edu

http://bear.cba.ufl.edu/figlio/

Areas of expertise: testing policy, school accountability, early childhood education,interactions between education and health policy

Biography

David Figlio is the Knight-Ridder Professor of Economics at the University of Florida and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a member of the CALDER Management Team and the principal investigator of the Florida site. He is the point of contact with the Florida Department of Education and local school districts and will oversee the empirical analyses of the Florida work.

Dr. Figlio edits the new MIT Press journal Education Finance and Policy. His research on education finance, school accountability, unintended reactions to school policy changes, and related topics has been published in leading economics journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Law and Economics, and Journal of Public Economics, and has been funded by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Education, and Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Child Health and Human development, the National Science Foundation, and numerous private foundations. He has assisted numerous states and foreign countries in the design and evaluation of education policies.

CALDER-Related Publications by Dr. Figlio

CALDER Publications by Dr. Figlio