GSPP Faculty
Jesse Rothstein
Areas of Expertise/Interest:
- Elementary and secondary education
- Higher education
- Tax policy
- Segregation
- Performance assessment
- Labor economics
- Public economics
- Applied econometrics
Biographical Statement:
Jesse Rothstein is a public and labor economist. His research focuses on education and tax policy, and particularly on the way that public institutions ameliorate or reinforce the effects of children’s families on their academic and economic outcomes. Much of his research examines racial gaps in educational progress. His studies in this area include an examination (with Albert Yoon) of the role of affirmative action in legal education and an assessment (with Alan Krueger and Sarah Turner) of Justice O’Connor’s prediction in Grutter v. Bollinger that affirmative action will be unnecessary within a quarter century. He also studies the causes and consequences of racial segregation and the role of housing markets in allocating access to good schools. More recently, he has worked on the evaluation of teacher quality using student achievement data and on the value of school infrastructure spending. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Chicago Law Review, and the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, among other outlets. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MPP from the Goldman School, and he is a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He will be on leave during the 2009-2010 academic year to serve as a Senior Economist with the Council of Economic Advisers.
