Caroline Minter Hoxby

Caroline Hoxby is a leading scholar in economics of education. Hoxby's best known work is on elementary and secondary education and includes studies of the effects of school choice and competition on student achievement, teaching, and productivity. Hoxby also writes on public school finance, class size, and teaching. In work on higher education, she studies the rising cost of college and the market for higher education. She is a Principal Investigator of the Expanding College Opportunities project, a randomized controlled trial addressing low-income, high achievers' college-going. Her work informs both education economics and important policy changes driving human capital development.