Caroline M. Hoxby is the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics at Stanford University in the department of economics and professor by courtesy at the Graduate School of Business. She is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a member of the Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, the director of the Economics of Education Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a presidential appointee to the National Board of Education Sciences.

She has written extensively on educational choice and related issues. She is the editor of The Economic Analysis of School Choice (University of Chicago Press, 2002) and College Choices (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Some of her published articles include “Does Competition among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers?” (American Economic Review, 2000), “Not All School Finance Equalizations Are Created Equal” (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001), and “How Teachers’ Unions Affect Education Production” (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1996).

Other articles written by Hoxby include “The Effects of School Choice on Curriculum and Atmosphere” (in Earning and Learning: How Schools Matter), “The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement” (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999), and “Evidence on Private School Vouchers: Effects on Schools and Students” (in Performance Based Approaches to School Reform).

Hoxby, who was the subject of a feature article in The New Yorker, has an undergraduate degree, a master’s degree, and a doctorate in economics. She earned her master’s degree in 1990 from the University of Oxford, which she attended on a Rhodes Scholarship, and her doctorate in 1994 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.