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Brian Aaron Jacob | |
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Nationality | American |
Academic career | |
Field | Labour and Education economics |
Institution | University of Michigan |
Alma mater | University of Chicago (Ph.D.) Harvard University (B.A.) |
Doctoral advisor | Steven Levitt |
Brian Aaron Jacob is an American economist and a professor of public policy, economics and education at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy of the University of Michigan. There, he also currently serves as co-director of the.[1] In 2008, Jacob's research on education policy was awarded the David N. Kershaw Award, which is given by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and honours persons who have made a distinguished contribution to the field of public policy analysis and management before the age of 40. His doctoral advisor at the University of Chicago was Freakonomics author Steven Levitt.[2]