Elizabeth Cascio is an applied economist and currently a professor of economics who holds the DeWalt H 1921 and Marie H Ankeny Professorship in Economic Policy at Dartmouth College.
10 Facts About Elizabeth Cascio
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Elizabeth Cascio is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research associate at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and Co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources.
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Elizabeth Cascio was a professor at the University of California at Davis from 2003 through 2006, when she joined the Dartmouth College faculty.
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Elizabeth U Cascio is an economist who specializes in the historical analysis around social policies and education for children in the 20th century.
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Elizabeth Cascio's research includes the socioeconomic ramifications of the civil rights movement in the 1970s, the inflow of immigrants into public schools in the 1970s, the impact of tchanging investments in education for young children in the 20th century, and the fracking boom in the 21st century.
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Elizabeth Cascio's paper comparing targeted with universal preschool programs was named one of the most important economics studies in 2017.
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Elizabeth Cascio has argued for replacing existing federal child care tax policies with a single refundable federal child care tax credit that is more generous to lower-income families and families with younger children.
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Elizabeth Cascio has proposed investments in childcare quality-rating systems and expansion of universal preschool for 4-year-olds.
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One of the earliest papers written by Elizabeth is a paper that explores the correlation between education and AFQT tests.
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Elizabeth Cascio compares the rates of which people go to higher education such as post-secondary school and beyond to determine how it is correlated to literacy gains from secondary-education.