Umut Özek

Umut Özek is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and an adjunct professor at American University. He was previously a principal economist at the American Institutes for Research; a senior researcher with the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research; and a research associate with the Education Policy Center at The Urban Institute. Özek's research interests include immigrant students and English learners; implementation and consequences of educational accountability; K–12 remediation policies and their effects; and the design and effects of school choice programs. His work has been widely published in economics journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Education Finance and Policy, and Economics of Education Review. Özek received his PhD in economics from the University of Florida.

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