How population-level matched birth-school administrative records can address public health and education policy questions

Speaker

David Figlio
Provost and Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and Education
University of Rochester

Abstract

This presentation highlights the recent scholarship of David Figlio, who popularized the use of matched birth-school data to address public health and education policy questions in the field of economics. Figlio will present a survey of his research on early health and later educational outcomes, as well as the use of sibling comparisons (facilitated by matched birth records) to study policy-relevant issues in education.