Jesse Rothstein

Education

Ph.D., economics, and M.P.P., University of California, Berkeley

Summary of Experience

Professor Rothstein is an expert in public policy and the economics of labor and employment. His research focuses on education policy and the labor market, including studies of teacher quality and of the effects of unemployment insurance during the Great Recession. Professor Rothstein previously served as chief economist at the US Department of Labor and as senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, both in the Obama Administration. His work on topics as the Great Recession and its aftermath, the effect of extended unemployment insurance benefits, teacher quality policy, tax policy towards low-income families, school finance reform and the distribution of student achievement, and tax incidence and earned income tax credits has been published in leading economics, public policy, education, and law journals. Professor Rothstein is a member of the editorial boards of Education Finance and Policy and the National Education Policy Center, and he is an associate editor of Industrial Relations and The Review of Economic and Statistics. Among other awards, he was named the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar by the Labor and Employment Relations Association. Professor Rothstein is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow at the National Education Policy Center, the CESifo Research Network, and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).