Eric A. Hanushek is Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, where he is also on the staff of the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO). He is also Professor (by courtesy) of education at Stanford University, Senior Research Fellow at the Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society at the University of Texas at Dallas and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Formerly Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of Rochester, where he was also Director of the W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy, he earned his Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T.. Previous positions include professorships at Yale University and at the US Air Force Academy. Hanushek is also a Member of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has served as President of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, and sits at the Board of Directors of the International Academy of Education.
Hanushek advises and has advised several US government authorities such as the US Department of Education and the Congressional Budget Office (of which he has also been Deputy Director) by sitting on committees and acting as consultant. He has also given testimony to committees of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives several times, as well as in several court cases on topics of the economics of education. He has also served as a member of several committees of the National Academy of Science and the National Research Council, such as the Committee on Scientific Principles of Education Research, and has been Chairman of the Panel on the Economics of Educational Reform. Hanushek is on the Editorial Boards of the Economics of Education Review and Education Next, and has previously served as an Associate Editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, a Co-Editor of the Journal of Human Resources and on the Editorial Boards of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the Journal of Economic Education, among several others.
Hanushek is the author of numerous major contributions to the economics of education, including his famous review of the efficiency of resource use in public schools in the Journal of Economic Literature (Hanushek 1986), as well as articles in such leading journals as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Economic Journal and the Review of Economics and Statistics, as well as in leading journals on the economics of education such as the Economics of Education Review, the Journal of Human Resources and Education Economics. Hanushek’s work focuses mainly on the economics of production and efficiency in public schools, the effect of human capital on economic growth, teacher labour markets and educational finance. He authored an influential US book on how to make schools work by setting incentives that improve performance and control costs (Hanushek et al. 1994), among several other books, and he has recently contributed the chapter on publicly provided education to the Handbook of Public Economics (Hanushek 2002). Hanushek is editor of the forthcoming Handbook of the Economics of Education (Hanushek and Welch 2004) and of the two-volume collection The Economics of Schooling and School Quality (Hanushek 2003b).
Hanushek will advise the network on mapping centres of excellence in the research on economics of education in the United States and will support the network’s discussions on efficiency of resource use in education, evaluation of educational policy interventions and the economics of education in general.
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