Professor
Department of Economics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2180
tsass@fsu.edu

Ph.D., Economics, University of Washington
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Expertise: classroom peer effects, school competition, special education,teacher quality, value-added modeling

Biography

Tim R. Sass is Professor of Economics at Florida State University specializing in applied microeconomics, industrial organization, public choice and the economics of education.   Dr. Sass is a member of the CALDER Florida team. He has also served as a consultant to the RAND Corporation, Berkeley Policy Associates and the National Academy of Sciences on various education policy research topics.

Dr. Sass’s work covers an array of education policy issues including charter schools, teacher quality, special education, peer effects and value-added methodology. He has been the Principal Investigator on a study of charter schools funded by the Spencer Foundation as well as Co-Principal Investigator on a grant project to evaluate the certification system of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. He has also directed USDOE-IES funded projects studying the determinants of regular education teacher effectiveness and the preparation of special education teachers.  Dr. Sass's current research focuses on measuring teacher quality and the distribution of teacher quality across schools.  He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington.

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