Caroline Minter Hoxby is a labor economist whose research focuses on issues in education. She is one of only 24 Harvard College Professors^[1] (a distinction awarded for excellence in undergraduate teaching) and is the Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the Economics of Education Program for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her studies on charter schools have been widely cited by supporters of educational vouchers. She will be moving to Stanford later this year, according to recent reports.^[2] Alan Greenspan, former chairman, United States Federal Reserve. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to studying the science and empirics of economics, especially the American economy. ... Charter schools are publicly funded elementary or secondary schools in the United States which have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools, in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each charter school... An education voucher, commonly called a school voucher, is a certificate by which parents are given the ability to pay for the education of their children at a school of their choice, rather than the public school to which they were assigned. ...

One of Hoxby's most-cited papers, "Does Competition among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers?" (American Economic Review, 2000), argues that increased school choice improves educational outcomes for all students, although her methods in the paper have received serious criticism^[3]. This paper was the subject of controversy in 2005 when Princeton assistant professor Jesse Rothstein (at the time, a graduate student at UC Berkeley under Professor David Card) published a paper claiming that he was unable to replicate her results. Hoxby published a response in defense of her original work a few months later. The Hoxby-Rothstein controversy was written up in several newspapers, including the Harvard Crimson ^[4] and the Wall Street Journal. The American Economic Review (AER) is a quarterly journal of economics published by the American Economic Association. ... Economist David Card David Card is a labor economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. ...

Her 2005 paper, "A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities", ranked American colleges based on students' revealed preferences. As of February 25, 2007, it is the sixth most downloaded paper from the Social Science Research Network.SSR Top Downloaded. February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

A native of Shaker Heights, Ohio, where she attended Shaker Heights High School, Hoxby is a Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College, where she won a Hoopes Prize. She attended Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1994, she received her PhD from MIT. She has taught at Harvard since 1995.^[5] She is married to Blair Hoxby, Associate Professor of English at Yale University with interests in John Milton and Renaissance theater. He will also be moving to Stanford University in the fall. ^[6] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Shaker Heights High School is an United States public high school at 15911 Aldersyde Road in Shaker Heights, Ohio. ... The Hoopes Prize is an award given annually to Harvard University undergraduates, and is considered one of the highest academic commendations the University can bestow upon an undergraduate. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ...

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