Dr. Caroline M. Hoxby is the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics at Stanford University.  She is also the Director of the Economics of Education Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.  She has served as a Presidential Appointee to the National Board of Education Sciences.

Hoxby is one of the world's leading scholars in the Economics of Education.  Her many honors include: The Smithsonian Institution's Ingenuity Award, The Thomas B. Fordham Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in Education, Global Leader of Tomorrow from the World Economic Forum, and Carnegie Scholar.

Made possible by a gift from Russell B. Hawkins '77

Recent Articles Highlighting Dr. Hoxby's Work:
The Atlantic - Smart Low Income Students Who Shun Good Colleges
Smithsonian Magazine - How Do You Get Poor Students to Apply to Great Colleges?
Inside Higher Ed - Matching the Undermatched

This event took place on Tuesday, March 8, 2016
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Parag A. Pathak is a Professor of Economics at MIT, found­ing co-director of the NBER Working Group on Market Design, and founder of MIT's School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII), a laboratory focused on education, human capital, and income distribution.  In 2005, based on work in his PhD thesis, Boston's school committee adopted a new mechanism for student placement, citing the desire to make it easier for participants to navigate and to level the playing field for the city's families.  He has also helped to design the Chicago, Denver, Newark, New Orleans, New York, and Washington DC school choice systems.  

His work on mar­ket design and edu­ca­tion was rec­og­nized with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.  In 2012, he was selected to give the Shapley Lecture at GAMES2012 as a dis­tin­guished game the­o­rist under age 40.   In 2013, he was appointed as Mayor Thomas Menino's chief technical advisor for Boston's student assignment plan.  Under his direction, SEII provided a formal analysis of different alternatives, which eventually led to the most significant change in Boston's school choice system since the end of court-ordered busing.  The IMF listed him as one of 25 top economists under age 45 in 2014.  He was awarded the 2016 Social Choice and Welfare Award as the top young scholar in social choice and welfare economics together with Fuhito Kojima.  In addition to gen­er­at­ing aca­d­emic pub­li­ca­tions that study, develop, and test dif­fer­ent student assign­ment sys­tems, Pathak's research work has directly affected the lives of over one mil­lion pub­lic school students.

Tuesday, April 12
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