Truancy is a considerable problem among adolescents. Considering the historical emphasis on studying truancy in urban regions, a concerted effort is needed to extend this research into rural areas to examine cultural generalizability of findings. The...
Christopher Avery is the Roy E. Larsen Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Harvard Kennedy School. He teaches analytic courses in microeconomics and statistics. He studies rating and selection mechanisms, focusing on the college admissions...
Elise Swanson is the director of the Research Initiatives for College and Career Success (RICCS) portfolio at the Center for Education Policy Research, where she leads the analytic work for multiple projects. Prior to joining CEPR, Elise was a Senior...
Thomas Kane is an economist, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, member of the Yidan Prize Foundation Council of Luminaries, and faculty director of CEPR. Between 2009 and 2012, he directed the Measures of...
Dr. Douglas Staiger is the John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College. Before joining Dartmouth in 1998, he was a faculty member at Stanford and Harvard. Dr. Staiger is a member of the National Academy of...
