David Figlio is a Research Fellow at CERP. He is the Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy, Director of the Institute for Policy Research, and Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, and Economics at Northwestern University, as well as Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an associate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr David joined the University of Rochester on July 1, 2022 from Northwestern University, where he served as Orrington Lunt Professor and Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy, and was previously the Director of Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Oregon and the University of Florida, where he was the Knight-Ridder Professor of Economics. He served as the inaugural editor of the Association for Education Finance and Policy’s journal, Education Finance and Policy (MIT Press), and recently completed ten years as co-editor and then editor (from 2015-21) of the Journal of Human Resources. He has been part of numerous national education task forces and panels, such as the Institute of Medicine’s panel on the Science of Child Development from Birth through Age Eight, and advised several U.S. states and foreign nations on the design, implementation, and evaluation of educational policies. Dr David is a research fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany; a member of the CESifo Network on the Economics of Education in Munich, Germany. His research on education and social policy, including influential work on school accountability, standards, welfare policy, and policy design, has been published in numerous leading journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, JAMA Pediatrics, Review of Economics and Statistics and Journal of Human Resources. Organizations supporting his research include the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Education, and Health and Human Services, as well as the Annie E. Casey, Doris Duke Charitable Trust, Gates, Laura and John Arnold, MacArthur, Smith Richardson, and Spencer foundations, among others. Currently, his research involves evaluating the Florida Corporate Tax Credit Scholarship Program, the largest school voucher program in the United States; conducting a large-scale study of school accountability in Florida, involving collecting survey data on a census of public school principals in the state; and following children from birth through their school career studying key questions regarding early childhood policy and inequality. Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty in 2008, Dr David taught at the University of Florida, from 1998-2008 and the University of Oregon from 1995-1998. He earned his PhD in Economics in 1995 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.