Sarah Crittenden Fuller

Research Associate Professor, Education Policy Initiative at Carolina, Department of Public Policy,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sarah Crittenden Fuller is a research associate professor with the Education Policy Initiative at Carolina in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She leverages large administrative datasets and quasi-experimental designs to estimate the causal effects of particular policies or events on student outcomes. Fuller has led projects examining the impacts of natural disasters on educational outcomes nationwide and the impacts of remote learning due to COVID-19 on schools in North Carolina. Her other areas of ongoing research include high school reform models, the impacts of school nutrition on academic outcomes, and the influence of hurricanes in North Carolina on childhood outcomes. She has recent publications in Economics of Education Review, AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice, AERA Open, and Urban Education. Fuller received her PhD in public policy from Duke University.

updated 2024

Contributing topics

Continuous school improvement & support

Educator workforce & effectiveness

Commentary by Sarah Crittenden Fuller