David Figlio

University of Rochester

Provost

David Figlio is the Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and Education (by courtesy) at the University of Rochester, as well as Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He conducts research on a wide range of education and health policy issues from school accountability and standards to welfare policy and policy design. His current research projects involve studying the interrelationship between health and education, the ways in which parents confer advantage and disadvantage to their children, and the role of educational institutions in affecting these relationships; higher education policies and practices such as online education and educational staffing; K-12 education policies such as school accountability, school choice, and teacher tenure; and early childhood health and education policies such as early interventions for autism spectrum disorders. He also recently led a National Science Foundation-sponsored national network to facilitate the use of matched administrative datasets to inform and evaluate education policy. He is one of two founding editors of Education Finance and Policy, and has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Resources. He has previously served as Dean of Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy, and as Provost of the University of Rochester. He earned in PhD in economics in 1995 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.