C. Kirabo "Bo" Jackson is an American economist who is Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy at

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

, a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the

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. He previously served as co-editor at ''

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'' and is currently a co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. In 2020, he was elected to the

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and was awarded the David N. Kershaw Award and Prize for contributions to the field of public policy analysis and management from the

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(APPAM). In 2022 he was elected to the

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which honors the excellence and leadership of exceptional people from all disciplines and practice

Education and early life

Jackson is the son of an economist, and was born in the

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area. He grew up in the United States,

the Caribbean The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...

, and

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra ...

before earning a bachelor's degree in ethics, politics, and economics from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in 2002 and a PhD in economics from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 2007.

Career

Jackson began his teaching career as Assistant Professor in the

School of Industrial and Labor Relations The New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University (ILR) is an industrial relations school and one of the four New York State contract colleges at Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York, United States. The ...

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before moving to Northwestern in 2010. He was awarded tenure at Northwestern University in 2012. His research has focused on teacher labor markets and determinants of student success beyond test scores. In a series of papers, he showed that court-ordered increases in school funding in the 1970s increased later-life outcomes, such as wages in adulthood, for the students affected.

Selected works

* Jackson, C. Kirabo, and Elias Bruegmann. "Teaching students and teaching each other: The importance of peer learning for teachers." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1, no. 4 (2009): 85-108. * Jackson, C. Kirabo, Rucker C. Johnson, and Claudia Persico. "The effects of school spending on educational and economic outcomes: Evidence from school finance reforms."

The Quarterly Journal of Economics ''The Quarterly Journal of Economics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Oxford University Press for the Harvard University Department of Economics. Its current editors-in-chief are Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan N ...

131, no. 1 (2016): 157–218. * Jackson, C. Kirabo. "Student demographics, teacher sorting, and teacher quality: Evidence from the end of school desegregation."

Journal of Labor Economics A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of what happened over the course of a day or other period *Daybook, also known as a general journal, a ...

27, no. 2 (2009): 213–256. * Jackson, C. Kirabo. "Match quality, worker productivity, and worker mobility: Direct evidence from teachers."

Review of Economics and Statistics ''The'' ''Review of Economics and Statistics'' is a peer-reviewed 103-year-old general journal that focuses on applied economics, with specific relevance to the scope of quantitative economics. The ''Review'', edited at the Harvard University’s K ...

95, no. 4 (2013): 1096–1116. * Jackson, C. Kirabo. "A little now for a lot later a look at a Texas advanced placement incentive program."

45, no. 3 (2010): 591–639.
EPI’s Annual Lecture 2019 delivered by Professor Kirabo Jackson – ‘Education for Long-Run Success’

References

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