NBER Profile: David N. Figlio.

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David N. Figlio is the Walter J. Matherly Professor of Economics at the University of Florida and a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his B.S. in Business Economics and Public Policy from the George Washington University in 1991 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995. Prior to joining Florida's faculty, Figlio was an assistant professor at the University of Oregon from 1995-8.

Figlio's research focuses on topics in the economics of education and social policy and on the political economy of policy formation and implementation. Much of his current research concerns the unintended consequences of school accountability systems, studying outcomes as disparate as school lunch programs, student disability classification, school zoning, and house prices. In addition, he is a principal investigator, along with Cecilia Rouse, Dan Goldhaber, and Jane...