Randall Reback

Title: Assistant Professor

Office:  Room 9A Lehman Hall

Current Office Hours & Teaching Schedule

 Phone: (212) 854-5005 fax: (212) 854-8947

 email: rreback@barnard.edu
            rr2165@columbia.edu

 

 

Education:

PhD Economics, University of Michigan, 2003
MA  Social Science Research in Education, Stanford University, 1997
BA  Economics, Stanford University, 1997

Teaching Specialties:

Economics of Education
Microeconomics
Urban Economics
Econometrics

Research Interests:

Economics of Education
Public Finance

Labor Economics
Applied Econometrics

Major Publications:

“Teaching to the Rating: School Accountability and the Distribution of Student Achievement,” Journal of Public Economics 92, June 2008, pp. 1394-1415.

“Tinkering Towards Accolades: School Gaming under a Performance Accountability System.”, (with Julie Berry Cullen). Chapter 1, Advances in Applied Microeconomics, vol. 14, edited by Timothy J. Gronberg & Dennis W. Jansen, Elsevier, 2006.

"The Impact of College Course Offerings on the Supply of Academically Talented Public School Teachers." Journal of Econometrics 121, July 2004, pp. 377-404.

"House Prices and the Provision of Public Services: Capitalization under School Choice Programs." Journal of Urban Economics, 2005