Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute

Adjunct Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute

Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

krueben@ui.urban.org

http://www.ppic.org/main/bio.asp?i=141

http://www.urban.org/KimRueben

Areas of expertise: school finance, teacher labor market, teacher recruitment and retention, California

Biography

Kim Rueben is a senior research associate at the Tax Policy Center a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution and is a member of the Strategic Planning Group. She is an expert on education policy and state and local and education finance, state and local government budget decisions and the economics of education. She will collaborate on studies across the center and will also work on supplementary projects.

Dr. Rueben is a public finance economist and is an expert on California's education system. She was a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) and is now an adjunct fellow. She has co-authored projects examining both the distribution of teachers and resources across California's schools and studied teacher labor markets in California.

Dr. Rueben has also been a visiting scholar at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank (2002-2003) and an adjunct professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley (1998-1999) and Georgetown Public Policy Institute (2006-2007) . She is currently serving on the executive board of the American Education Finance Association. She received her Ph.D. from M.I.T in economics.

CALDER-Related Publications by Dr. Rueben