Kirabo Jackson

C. Kirabo "Bo" Jackson is an American economist who is Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy and Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.[1] He previously served as co-editor at Journal of Human Resources and is currently Editor in Chief of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.[2] In 2020, he was elected to the National Academy of Education and was awarded the David N. Kershaw Award and Prize for contributions to the field of public policy analysis and management from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM).[3][4] In 2022 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences which honors the excellence and leadership of exceptional people from all disciplines and practices. In August, 2023, the White House announced that Jackson had joined President Biden's three-member Council of Economic Advisers.[5]

C. Kirabo Jackson
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
InstitutionNorthwestern University
Cornell University
FieldEconomics of Education, Labor Economics, Public Finance
Alma materYale University (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Awards2020 David N. Kershaw Award and Prize for contributions to the field of public policy analysis and management. 2022 Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences which honors the excellence and leadership of exceptional people from all disciplines and practices.
Websitehttps://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/profile/?p=21526

Education and early life

Jackson is the son of an economist, and was born in the Chicago area. He grew up in the United States, the Caribbean, Tanzania, and Sierra Leone before earning a bachelor's degree in ethics, politics, and economics from Yale University in 2002 and a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 2007.[6][4]

Jackson's Jamaican father, Clement, was the first director of the Planning Institute of Jamaica. His mother June Jackson, a native of Trinidad & Tobago, was a lecturer at the University of Technology. [7]

Career

Jackson began his teaching career as assistant professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University before moving to Northwestern in 2010. He was awarded tenure at Northwestern University in 2012.[8]

His research has focused on teacher labor markets and determinants of student success beyond test scores. In a series of papers, he showed that court-ordered increases in school funding in the 1970s increased later-life outcomes, such as wages in adulthood, for the students affected.[4]

Selected works

References
  1. "Kirabo Jackson | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal". voxeu.org. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  2. "American Economic Association". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  3. "Northwestern's Kirabo Jackson Earns Prestigious David N. Kershaw Award". Mathematica. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  4. Barnum, Matt. "The 74 Interview: Kirabo Jackson on the Importance of School Spending, 'Soft Skills' and Teacher Quality". Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  5. House, The White (2023-08-11). "President Biden Announces C. Kirabo Jackson to the Council of Economic Advisers". The White House. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
  6. "Kirabo Jackson Honored with Public Policy Prize Northwestern University | School of Education & Social Policy". www.sesp.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  7. https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latest-news/jamaican-appointed-to-bidens-council-of-economic-advisers/
  8. "Kirabo Jackson". National Academy of Education. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
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