Francisco (Paco) Martorell

Francisco (Paco) Martorell is codirector of the California Education Lab and an associate professor at the UC Davis School of Education. His research focuses on developmental education in colleges; the effects of grade retention; the returns to for-profit colleges; the impacts of school facility investments; and community college tuition subsidies. He was previously an economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee-RAND Graduate School. He received his PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

updated 2018