Research Associate,
Education Policy Center 
The Urban Institute
2100 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
UOzek@urban.org 

Ph.D., Economics, University of Florida
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Expertise: education and health policy, school choice, school desegregation

Biography

Umut Özek is currently a Research Associate with the Education Policy Center at the Urban Institute and an affiliated researcher with CALDER. His research interests include the economics of education, public economics, and health economics.

Dr. Özek’s recent research focuses on school choice reforms with emphasis on open enrollment programs, investigating the empirical aspects of such programs by analyzing their impact on households’ public school choice behavior and student outcomes as well as the theoretical aspect by evaluating different assignment mechanisms that are commonly used to implement these programs. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Florida.