Scott Carrell

Scott Carrell
Scott Carrell
Professor,
University of California, Davis

Scott Carrell is professor of economics at the University of California, Davis, where he also serves as the cofaculty director of the California Education Laboratory. His research focuses on the economics of education. In addition, Carrell is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at Institute for the Study of Labor, and a co-editor for the Journal of Human Resources. He previously taught at Dartmouth College and the U.S. Air Force Academy. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Florida.

updated 2019

Publications by Scott Carrell
California’s College Readiness Standards and Lessons from District Leaders
During the past decade, education leaders and policymakers have made significant investments to better align California’s K-12 and postsecondary education systems and to address persistent disparities in educational attainment by race and…
For as much as we know about the economic benefits of a college degree, California policymakers and educators have little information about the college destinations of high school graduates. To fill this information gap, we assembled a unique data…