15 Facts About Caroline Hoxby

Caroline Minter Hoxby was born on 1966 and is an American economist whose research focuses on issues in education and public economics.

Caroline Hoxby is currently the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor in Economics at Stanford University and program director of the Economics of Education Program for the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Caroline Hoxby is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Caroline Hoxby is a native of Shaker Heights, Ohio, where she attended Shaker Heights High School.

Caroline Hoxby then attended Magdalen College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship.

Caroline Hoxby was the university's only African-American economics professor with tenure.

Caroline Hoxby moved to Stanford University in 2007, where she is the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics.

Caroline Hoxby was named the John and Lydia Pearce Mitchell University Fellow in Undergraduate Education in 2014.

Caroline Hoxby has been married to Blair Hoxby, a Harvard graduate and a Rhodes Scholar, since 1993.

Caroline Hoxby is currently a faculty member in the English department at Stanford University and does scholarly work on John Milton and Renaissance theater.

In 2014, Caroline Hoxby allegedly injured a Stanford student during an altercation over a noise complaint.

Caroline Hoxby's research focuses on higher education policy, with an emphasis on elite colleges and universities.

Caroline Hoxby is a Principal Investigator of the Expanding College Opportunities project, a randomized controlled trial that had dramatic effects on low-income, high achievers' college-going.

Jesse Rothstein published a paper in which he stated that Caroline Hoxby's result depended on her hand-count of the main instrumental variable, and that he was unable to replicate her results with any of several alternative measures.

Caroline Hoxby later published a response in defense of her original work.