Dr. Dan D. Goldhaber is a Research Analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses in Alexandria, VA. His research focuses on a wide range of K-12 schooling issues including the productivity of private and public schools, the relative returns to educational resources, and teacher labor markets. Parts of his dissertation titled, "Public and Private High Schools: School Choice and the Consequences" have been published in Economics of Education Review, and in an upcoming article in Phi Delta Kappan. He has also worked on the issue of the effects of teacher race, gender, and ethnicity on student performance using NELS:88, published in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and more recently with Dominic Brewer on the observable and unobservable influence of teachers on student performance, forthcoming in the Journal of Human Resources.

Dr. Goldhaber received his Ph.D. in Labor Economics from Cornell in 1994. He also periodically serves as an adjunct instructor at Strayer College. Recently Dr. Goldhaber was elected to the Alexandria City school board for the term beginning July, 1997.

Dr. Dominic J. Brewer is a labor economist at RAND in Santa Monica and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA, specializing in the economics of education and education finance. His research has focused on educational productivity and teacher incentives, using large national databases. Examples of this work include an analysis of the effects of teacher education and quality on student achievement gains, the effects of ability grouping on student achievement, and the effects of administrative resources on student performance. He has published numerous articles in academic journals such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics, and Economics of Education Review, as well as in other journals such as Phi Delta Kappan.

Dr. Brewer received his Ph.D. in Labor Economics from Cornell in 1994.

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