Caroline Hoxby
Caroline Minter Hoxby (* 1966 ) is an American economist .
Career, research and teaching
Hoxby is the daughter of Steven Minter , who was one of the leading officials under Jimmy Carter in the United States Department of Education, established in 1979 . She studied at Harvard University , where she graduated summa cum laude in 1988 . She then received a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at the University of Oxford for a Master of Philosophy degree in economics in 1990 , before successfully completing her Ph.D. Graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in Economics .
From 1994 Hoxby worked at Harvard University, first as an assistant professor and later as an associate professor . In 2001 she was appointed full professor at the university . She was the only African American lecturer there with a tenure track . In 2007 she followed an appointment at Stanford University together with her husband Blair Hoxby , Professor of English Literature .
Hoxby is director of the Economics of Education Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research .
Hoxby's work focuses on the economics of education , in particular how higher education affects the labor market on the one hand and the costs of higher education on the other, thus leading to access restrictions for people with lower incomes. Following on from this, she also examines how government spending and control measures through taxation affect attendance at colleges . A study of the extent to which greater competition and simplified choice of schools increases the level of education , teacher remuneration and the productivity of schools generated greater media coverage, with coverage in the Wall Street Journal, among others .
She was a MacArthur Fellow from 1997 to 2004 and a Sloan Research Fellow from 1999 to 2001 . In 2020 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and as a foreign member to the British Academy .
Web links
- Official homepage at Stanford University
- Caroline Hoxby in the IDEAS database
Individual evidence
- ↑ boston.com: "Dual careers worry academia" (accessed on September 24)
- ↑ wsj.com: "Novel Way to Assess School Competition Stirs Academic Row" (accessed September 24)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoxby, Caroline |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoxby, Caroline Minter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |