David Figlio

About

David Figlio is the Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester. He conducts research on a wide range of education and health policy issues from school accountability and standards to welfare policy and policy design, as well as the interrelationship between education and health. He also studies aspects of the academic profession itself, including academic peer review and the publication process. Figlio collaborates frequently with state and local health and education agencies and recently led a National Science Foundation-sponsored national network to facilitate the use of matched administrative data sets to inform and evaluate education policy. An elected member of the National Academy of Education, Figlio previously served as dean of Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy and as provost of the University of Rochester. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, and a member of the CESifo Network on the Economics of Education in Munich.

Figlio has published his work in such leading journals as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, JAMA Pediatrics, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and Journal of Human Resources. Organizations supporting his research include the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the US departments of agriculture, education, and health and human services, and the Annie E. Casey, Arnold, Doris Duke, Gates, MacArthur, Smith Richardson, Spencer, and Walton Family foundations.

Figlio served as the inaugural editor of the Association for Education Finance and Policy’s journal, Education Finance and Policy, and recently completed ten years as coeditor and then editor of the Journal of Human Resources.