Background

Michelle Blair is a graduate student of the economics of education at Stanford University. For more than 10 years, she was a lead researcher in the U.S. federal government, serving as Assistant Director of Assessment Development for one of the world's most respected educational testing programs. She holds a Master’s degree in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Maryland; a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University; and a Bachelor’s degree in English literature from Cornell University. Focusing on certification industries, her current research interests include: using U.S. datasets and datasets in other countries to explore how markers, such as race, ethnicity, and gender, influence markets, human capital, economic growth, innovation, and distributions of risk. As Ms. Blair trains to be an academic economist, she would value hearing about summer, doctoral fellowship, consultant, and postdoctoral opportunities in labor economics (micro/macro), public economics, econometrics, and/or the economics of education.