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The Politics of Education Policy: An International Perspective

May 5-6, 2016

PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY

Samuel Barrows Postdoctoral Fellow PEPG, Harvard Kennedy School sbarrows@fas.harvard.edu Samuel is a PEPG postdoctoral fellow. He previously read philosophy, politics, and economics at St John’s College, Oxford. Samuel’s research explores how education and social networks shape people’s political attitudes and behavior.

Luna Bellani

Assistant Professor of Public Economics University of Konstanz luna.bellani@uni-konstanz.de Luna Bellani is an applied microeconomist Assistant Professor of Public Economics at the University of Konstanz in Germany, research affiliate at Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy at Bocconi University, and a junior investigator at the Graduate School of Decision Sciences at the University of Konstanz. She completed her Ph.D. in Economics at Bocconi University (June 2011)

in Milan. She is currently visiting the Department of Economics at Boston College. Marius R. Busemeyer

Professor of Political Science University of Konstanz Marius.Busemeyer@uni-konstanz.de Marius Busemeyer is a Professor of Political Science (with a focus on Policy Analysis and Political Theory). Busemeyer studied political science, economics and public law at the University of Heidelberg. In 2006, he received his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.) in Political Science from the University of Heidelberg as well. From 2003 until 2005, Busemeyer was enrolled in the MPA program of the Harvard Kennedy School in

Cambridge, MA as a McCloy-Fellow of the German National Merit Foundation. Between 2006 and 2010, Busemeyer was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany.

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Vigile Marie Fabella Doctoral Candidate University of Konstanz vigile.fabella@uni-konstanz.de Vigile Marie Fabella is an economist with a research focus on political economy of reforms and education economics. In particular, she is interested in the interaction of stakeholders in the political process of reforming the education system. Since 2012, she has been a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Konstanz in Germany. Before that, she worked as a research associate for the Health Equity and

Financial Protection in Asia project, funded by the European Commission. Jane Friesen

Associate Professor, Department of Economics Director, Centre for Education Research and Policy Simon Fraser University friesen@sfu.ca Jane Friesen has been an Associate Professor in Economics at Simon Fraser University in Canada. She also serves as the Director of Centre for Education Research and Policy and Academic Director of Simon Fraser University branch of the British Columbia Inter-University Research Data Centre. She received her bachelors degree at the

University of British Columbia and her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. Julian L. Garritzmann

Doctoral Researcher, Department of Political Science University of Konstanz julian.garritzmann@uni-konstanz.de Julian L. Garritzmann is a graduate student at the University of Konstanz. He studied Political Science, Philosophy and German literature and language at the University of Cologne. In 2011 he received the degree of a Magister Artium (grade: "with distinction"). During his studies he worked as a student assistant at the Chair of Comparative Politics of Prof. Dr. André Kaiser and at the Max-Planck-Institute for

the Study of Societies, Cologne. Julian's main research focus is on the political economy of skill formation and on the interrelation of party competition and policy making.

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Michael Henderson Assistant Professor of Research Research Director, Public Policy Research Lab Louisiana State University mbhende1@lsu.edu Mike Henderson received his Ph.D. in government and social policy from Harvard University. His interests include public opinion and elections. Specifically, his research focuses on how information shapes what citizens learn about public affairs

and how they use this knowledge in making decisions. He has been involved in the design of several polls including the 2007-2008 Associated Press Yahoo New Election Panel Study, which tracked the opinions of voters over the course of the 2008 presidential campaign, and the annual Education Next Poll, administered under the auspices of Harvard University’s Program on Education Policy and Governance to track Americans’ opinions of their schools and education reform. Vladimir Kogan

Assistant Professor Ohio State University kogan.18@osu.edu Vladimir Kogan (Ph.D., U. C. San Diego, 2012) studies state and local politics in the United States. He is co-author of Paradise Plundered: Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego (Stanford University Press, 2011), which won the best book award from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. In 2010, Kogan was the recipient of the Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award

from the Urban Affairs Association. Kogan serves on the editorial board of Urban Affairs and is affiliated with OSU’s Center for the Study of Democracy, the Education Governance and Accountability Project, and Translational Data Analytics @ Ohio State. Stéphane Lavertu

Associate Professor Ohio State University lavertu.1@osu.edu Professor Lavertu has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin, a master’s in education policy analysis and evaluation from Stanford University, and a bachelor’s in political science from The Ohio State University. Much of his research examines how politics affects the policymaking authority, design, and operation of public agencies. He is particularly interested in how politics affects the development

and implementation of education policies, as well as the outcomes these policies generate.

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Philipp Lergetporer Economist ifo Munich lergetporer@ifo.de Phillip Lergetporer earned both his Bachelors and Ph.D. in economics at the Leopold Franzens University in Austria. He earned a Masters of Social Science Data Analysis from the University of Essex in the UK. He has been on staff at ifo since 2014.

Cathie Jo Martin

Professor of Political Science Boston University cjmartin@bu.edu Cathie Jo Martin is professor of Political Science at Boston University and former chair of the Council for European Studies. Professor Martin specializes in the relationship between business and social policy and other issues in comparative public policy. Her book with Duane Swank, The Political Construction of Business Interests:

Coordination, Growth and Equality (Cambridge University Press, 2012) won the David Greenstone book prize from the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association. Martin co-edited with Jane Mansbridge the American Political Science Association presidential task force report, Negotiating Agreement in Politics (APSA 2013). Terry M. Moe

William Bennett Munro Professor in Political Science Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution Stanford University Terry M. Moe has written extensively on the politics of American education. His newest book, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools (2011), provides the first comprehensive study of this nation’s teachers unions, their exercise of power in collective bargaining and politics, and its

consequences for the public schools. His past work on education includes Politics, Markets, and America's Schools (1990) and Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education (2009), both with John E. Chubb, and Schools, Vouchers, and the American Public (2001).

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Ricardo Perez-Truglia Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics Microsoft Research rtruglia@microsoft.com Ricardo Perez-Truglia is a Post-Doc Researcher in Economics at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, MA. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2014.

Zachary Peskowitz

Assistant Professor Emory University zachary.f.peskowitz@emory.edu Zachary Peskowitz completed his Ph.D. in political economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2012. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2015, Peskowitz held a position as an assistant professor at Ohio State University. Peskowitz's primary research focus is American politics, with a particular interest in how elections affect policy outcomes. His articles have been published in the

American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and other journals. Paul E. Peterson

Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government Director, Program on Education Policy and Governance Editor-in-Chief of Education Next Harvard University ppeterso@gov.harvard.edu Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Editor-In-Chief of

Education Next, a journal of opinion and research. Peterson is a former director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University and of the Governmental Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. He received his Ph. D. in political science from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the German Marshall Foundation, and the Center for Study in the Behavioral Sciences.He is the author of the book, Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning (Harvard University Press, 2010).

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Randall Reback Associate Professor of Economics Barnard College, Columbia University rr2165@columbia.edu Randall Reback is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Barnard College, as well as a Faculty Fellow at Columbia University's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy. He also holds a courtesy faculty appointment in the Program in Economics and Education at Teachers College and is a Faculty Research Fellow at CESifo. His research projects examine U.S. education policies.

Luca Repetto

Assistant Professor of Economics Uppsala University luca.repetto@nek.uu.se Luca Repetto is an assistant professor at the department of Economics, Uppsala University. His fields of interest are political economy and applied econometrics.

Robert Y. Shapiro

Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government Columbia University rys3@columbia.edu Robert Y. Shapiro (Ph.D., Chicago, 1982) is a professor and former chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, and he served as acting director of Columbia’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) during 2008-2009. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received a Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award in

2012 and in 2010 the Outstanding Achievement Award of the New York Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (NYAAPOR). He specializes in American politics with research and teaching interests in public opinion, policymaking, political leadership, the mass media, and applications of statistical methods. He has taught at Columbia since 1982 after receiving his degree and serving as a study director at the National Opinion Research Center (University of Chicago).

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Yujie Sude Doctoral Candidate University of Arkansas ysude@email.uark.edu Yujie Sude is a Ph.D. candidate and a Research Assistant in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Originally from China, Yujie earned her master's degree in Education Economics at the Beijing Normal University and bachelor's degree in Political Science at the Peking University. Her research interest is majorly about marketization reform on education systems such as school choice and

charter schools. Martin R. West

Associate Professor of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education martin_west@gse.harvard.edu Martin West is an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, deputy director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, and an executive editor of Education Next. West’s research examines the politics of K-12 education policy in the United States and the effectiveness of alternative reform strategies in improving student achievement and

non-cognitive skills. His most recent book (co-edited with Joshua Dunn), From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary’s Role in American Education (Brookings Institution Press), looks at the increase in judicial involvement in education policymaking over the past 50 years. Before joining the Harvard faculty, West taught at Brown University and was a research fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. Katharina Werner

Junior Economist and Doctoral Student ifo Munich werner.k@ifo.de Katharina Werner is earned her M. Phil. in Economic Research at the University of Cambridge. She has worked at the Ifo Institute since 2013.

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Ludger Woessmann Professor of Economics Director of the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education at the Ifo Institute University of Munich woessmann@ifo.de Ludger Woessmann is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich and Director of the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education at the Ifo Institute. His main research interests are the determinants of long-run prosperity and of student achievement. He uses microeconometric methods to answer applied, policy-relevant

questions of the empirical economics of education, often using international student achievement tests. His work was rewarded, among others, with the Gossen Prize of the German Economic Association, the Young Economist Award of the European Economic Association, the EIB Prize of the European Investment Bank, and the Bruce H. Choppin Memorial Award of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement. Patrick J. Wolf

Professor and 21st Century Chair in School Choice University of Arkansas pwolf@uark.edu Dr. Patrick J. Wolf is Distinguished Professor of Education Policy and 21st Century Endowed Chair in School Choice in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions. Previously he worked as a lobbyist for people with hearing impairments, a janitorial assistant, a state

government administrator, and a pizza deliverer – though not necessarily in that order. As principal investigator of the School Choice Demonstration Project he has led or is leading major studies of school choice initiatives including longitudinal evaluations of school voucher programs in Washington, DC, Milwaukee, WI, and the state of Louisiana. Stefan C. Wolter

Professor at University of Bern Managing Director of the Swiss Coordination Centre for Research in Education stefan.wolter@vwi.unibe.ch Stefan C. Wolter is Managing Director of the Swiss Coordination Centre for Research in Education in Aarau, Switzerland. He is also currently the Head of the Centre for Research in Economics of Education at the University of Berne and Co-Director of the Swiss Leading House on Economics of Education (a joint activity with the University of Zurich). Having previously served as Senior Economist at the Union

Bank of Switzerland, Chief Economist at the Federal Office for Industry and Labour and Head of Division at the Federal Office for Economic Development and Labour, Wolter received his Master and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Berne, where he also received his venia docendi in Economics.