Susanna Loeb is a professor of education at Stanford University and a Co-Director at PACE. She specializes in the economics of education and the relationship between schools and federal, state, and local policies. She studies resource allocation, looking specifically at how teachers’ preferences and teacher preparation policies affect the distribution of teaching quality across schools and how the structure of state finance systems affects the level and distribution of funds to districts. She also studies poverty policies including welfare reform and early-childhood education programs. Dr. Loeb is also an associate professor of business (by courtesy) at Stanford and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Dr. Loeb earned a BA in Political Science from Stanford University in 1988, a BS in Civil Engineering from Stanford University in 1988, an MPP in Public Policy Studies from the University of Michigan in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1998.
She may be reached at sloeb@stanford.edu.
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