Dr. Dan Goldhaber

Dr. Dan Goldhaber is a Research Professor at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education, an Affiliated Scholar of the Urban Institute's Education Policy Center, and Senior Non-resident Fellow of Education Sector. Dr. Goldhaber previously served as an elected member of the Alexandria City School Board from 1997-2002.

Dr. Goldhaber's research focuses on issues of educational productivity and reform at the K-12 level, and the relationship between teacher labor markets and teacher quality. Topics of published work in these areas include studies of the effects of teacher qualifications and quality on student achievement; the impact of teacher pay structure and licensure on the teacher labor market; the relative efficiency of public and private schools; the role of community colleges in higher education; and the effects of accountability systems and market competition on K-12 schooling. His research has been published in leading economic and education journals such as The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Urban Economics, Economics of Education Review, Education Finance and Policy, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Joyce Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and numerous other private foundations.

Dr. Goldhaber holds degrees from the University of Vermont (B.A., Economics) and Cornell University (M.S. and Ph.D., Labor Economics).