Rate My Professor Kirabo Jackson

A labor economist, Jackson's research specializations encompass education policy, teacher labor markets, and social policy issues. His work investigates the role of peer learning in teacher effectiveness, how student demographics influence teacher quality distribution across schools, the context-dependence of teacher impacts, optimal measurement of teacher quality, effects of public school spending on student outcomes through adulthood, college-preparatory programs, educational tracking, and single-sex education in low-performing schools. Notable publications include 'The Effects of School Spending on Educational and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from School Finance Reforms' (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016), 'What Do Test Scores Miss? The Importance of Teacher Effects on Non-Test Score Outcomes' (Journal of Political Economy, 2018), 'Do School Spending Cuts Matter? Evidence from the Great Recession' (American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021), 'Can Introducing Single-Sex Education into Low-Performing Schools Improve Academics, Arrests, and Teen Motherhood?' (Journal of Human Resources, 2021), and 'What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output' (Review of Economic Studies, 2023). His scholarship has appeared in premier journals such as the Journal of Labor Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and American Economic Review: Insights. Jackson's contributions have been recognized with election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022 and the National Academy of Education in 2020, the David N. Kershaw Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in 2020, the Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence in 2018, and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2016. Since 2016, Education Week has listed him among top university-based scholars influencing educational policy and practice. His research receives support from the National Science Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Smith Richardson Foundation, and others.