Brian A. Jacob
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Brian A. Jacob is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy and Professor of Economics in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. His primary fields of interest are labor economics, program evaluation, child welfare and the economics of education. Jacob’s research covers a wide variety of topics including school choice, teacher labor markets, foster care and juvenile detention. His work has appeared in top economics journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. He serves as an editor for the Review of Economics and Statistics and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Earlier in his career, he served as a policy analyst in the NYC Mayor's Office and taught middle school in East Harlem. Jacob received his BA from Harvard College and his PhD from the University of Chicago. In 2008 he was awarded APPAM's David N. Kershaw Prize for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy by Age 40.