Caroline Hoxby

Caroline Hoxby
Born	1966 (age 50–51)
Nationality	American
Institution	Stanford University
Field	Labor economics Public economics
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Oxford Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	James M. Poterba
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Caroline Minter Hoxby (born 1966) is an American economist whose research focuses on issues in education and public economics. She is the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor in economics at Stanford University and director of the Economics of Education Program for the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Hoxby is a native of Shaker Heights, Ohio, where she attended Shaker Heights High School. Her father, Steven Minter, worked in the U.S. Department of Education during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. Hoxby graduated with summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 1988, where she won a Hoopes Prize. She then attended Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1994, she received her doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

From 1994 to 2007, she was a faculty member of Harvard University, first as an assistant professor, then as Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Economics, and starting in 2001 as the Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics. She was the university's only African-American economics professor with tenure. In 2005, she was appointed to be one of the 24 Harvard College Professors. In 2006, she won the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize. She moved to Stanford University in 2007, where she is the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics. She was named the John and Lydia Pearce Mitchell University Fellow in Undergraduate Education in 2014.

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