The Institute for Education and Social Policy

Sean Corcoran

Assistant Professor of Educational Economics

Sean Corcoran

Phone: 212-992-9468
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Sean P. Corcoran (Ph.D Economics, University of Maryland, 2003) is an assistant professor of educational economics at the Steinhardt School of Education, New York University, and an affiliated faculty of the NYU Wagner School of Public Service and Institute for Education and Social Policy.  His research interests include state and local public finance, labor economics, the economics of education, and applied microeconometrics.  Professor Corcoran is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., is the principal investigator for major grants related to the political economy of school finance from both the Spencer and Russell Sage Foundations, and was recently a 2005-06 visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.  In 2004 he was the recipient of the Jean Flanigan Dissertation Award from the American Education Finance Association.  His recent publications can be found in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Urban Economics, and the American Economic Review.


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Degrees Held

  • Ph.D University of Maryland 2003
    Economics

Awards

  • 2006 : Principal Investigator, Spencer Foundation major research grant (2006-07)
  • 2006 : Principal Investigator, Russell Sage Foundation grant, "The Political Economy of Inequality"

Publications

  • Curriculum Vitae (view)
  • “Women, the Labor Market, and the Declining Relative Quality of Teachers,” with William N. Evans and Robert M. Schwab. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, v. 23 n. 3, Summer 2004. (link)
  • “The Political Economy of School Choice: Support for Charter Schools Across States and School Districts,” with Christiana Stoddard. Forthcoming, Journal of Urban Economics. (link)
  • "Long-run Trends in the Quality of Teachers: Evidence and Implications for Policy," Policy Brief, Education Finance and Policy, Fall 2007, vol. 2 no. 4. (link)
  • "Equity, Adequacy, and the Evolving State Role in Education Finance," with William N. Evans, in Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy, ed. Helen F. Ladd and Edward B. Fiske, New York: Routledge, 2008. (link)

Courses

E10.2155 Economic Analysis for Education Policy
E10.2902 Financing Schools: Equity and Adequacy in Public Education

Research Interests

  • state and local public finance
  • teacher labor markets
  • school finance
  • applied (micro) econometrics