Lisa Barrow
Vice President
- BA,
- Economics,
- Carleton College,
- 1991
- MA,
- Economics,
- Princeton University,
- 1995
- PhD,
- Economics,
- Princeton University,
- 1999
Lisa Barrow is a vice president in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, leading the department’s regional analysis and outreach group. Before joining the Research Department, Dr. Barrow was a senior economist and economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and an affiliated researcher at the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. Her research focuses on a variety of education issues, including the impact of attending a selective high school on student outcomes, a randomized evaluation of computer-aided algebra instruction in large urban school districts, and evaluations of performance-based scholarship impacts on academic outcomes and student time use at the college level.
Her prior research on school choice, education production, and the earned income tax credit has appeared in numerous economic and policy journals. Barrow has also served as senior economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisers, a visiting assistant professor at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, and a visiting lecturer at the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Barrow holds a BA in economics from Carleton College and an MA and a PhD in economics from Princeton University.
Featured Publications
- “Are Friends of Schools the Enemies of Equity? The Interplay of School Funding Policies and External Fundraising” (with S. Komisarow and L. Sartain). Forthcoming in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
- “The Expanding Landscape of Online Education: Who Engages and How They Fare” (with L. Sartain and W. Morris). Journal of Labor Economics 42 no. S1 (April 2024): S417-S443.
- “Increasing Access to Selective High Schools Through Place-Based Affirmative Action: Unintended Consequences” (with L. Sartain and M. de la Torre). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 12 no. 4 (October 2020):135-63.
- “Teachers and Student Achievement in the Chicago Public High Schools” (with D. Aaronson and W. Sander). Journal of Labor Economics, 25, iss. 1 (January 2007): 95-135.
- “Work, Poverty, and Social Benefits Over the Past Three Decades” (with Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Bea Rivera”. ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 711 no. 1 (January 2024): 100-120.
- “Is College a Worthwhile Investment?” (with Ofer Malamud). Annual Review of Economics, 7 (August 2015): 519-555.
- “Paying for Performance: The Education Impacts of a Community College Scholarship Program for Low-income Adults” (with L. Richburg-Hayes, C. E. Rouse, and T. Brock). Journal of Labor Economics, 32 no. 3 (July 2014): 563-599.
- “School Vouchers and Student Achievement: Recent Evidence, Remaining Questions” (with C. E. Rouse). Annual Review of Economics, 1 (January 2009): 17-42.
- “Impact of Student-Based Budgeting in Chicago Public Schools.” With Sarah Komisarow and Lauren Sartain. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Chicago Fed Insights, September 2023.
- “Supporting Young English Learners in the United States” (with L. Markman-Pithers). The Future of Children, 26 no. 2 (Fall 2016): 159-183.
- “Postsecondary Education in the United States: Introducing the Issue” (with T. Brock and C. E. Rouse). The Future of Children, 23 no.1 (Spring 2013): 3-16.
- “Education and the Poor” (with D. Whitmore Schanzenbach). In ed. P. N. Jefferson, Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Poverty, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- “Causality, Causality, Causality: The View of Education Inputs and Outputs from Economics” (with C. E. Rouse). The State of Education Policy Research, S. Fuhrman, D. Cohen, and F. Mosher, editors. Mahway, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2007.
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