Scott E. Carrell
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics

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Biography
Contact Information
Teaching
Publications
Working Papers
Research in Progress
Curriculum Vitae (PDF file)

Brief Biography

Scott Carrell joined the faculty at UC Davis in 2007. Professor Carrell received his BA from the US Air Force Academy in 1995, an M.A. in Economics and an M.S. in Management from the University of Florida in 2002, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Florida in 2003. He previously taught at Dartmouth College and the U.S. Air Force Academy and served as the Senior Economist for Public Finance and Labor Economics on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers during the summer of 2004. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Economics of Education group. He spent ten years as an active duty officer in the U.S. Air Force and is currently a Major in the Air Force Reserves. He specializes in the fields of labor economics, economics of education, and public economics.

Contact Information

Department of Economics
University of California
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616

Office: 1148 SSH
Phone: (530) 302-1038
Fax: (530) 752-9382
Email: secarrell@ucdavis.edu

Teaching

• Principles of Microeconomics (Winter 2008)

• Economics of Education (Spring 2008)

Publications

• "Sex and Science: How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 125, Issue 3, August 2010. (with M. Page and J. West)
  (October 2009 version) (NBER Working Paper version) featured in Slate , June 5, 2009

• "Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2(1):211-228, January 2010. (with M. Hoekstra)
  (Publication Link) (Pre-Publication version) (NBER Working Paper version) featured in The New York Times: Freakonomics, July 31, 2008

• "Does Your Cohort Matter? Measuring Peer Effects in College Achievement," Journal of Labor Economics, 27(3): 439-464, July 2009. (with R. Fullerton and J. West)
  (April 2009 version) (NBER Working Paper version)

• "Domino Effect," Education Next, Volume 9, Number 3, Summer 2009. (with M. Hoekstra)

• "Politics and the Implementation of Public Policy: The Case of the Military Housing Allowance Program," Public Choice, Volume 138, Number 3-4, March 2009, 367-386. (with J. Hauge)
  (PDF copy of April 2008 pre-publication version)

• "Peer Effects in Academic Cheating," Journal of Human Resources. Volume XLIII, Number 1, Winter 2008, 173-207. (with J. West and F. Malmstrom)
  (PDF copy of Jan 2007 pre-publication version)

• "The National Internal Labor Market Encounters the Local Labor Market: Effects on Employee Retention," Labour Economics, Volume 14, Issue 5, October 2007, Pages 774-787.
  EALE Prize for the best paper published in Labour Economics during the period 2006-2007.
  (Available at ScienceDirect)

• "A Sequential Equilibrium for the Army's Targeted Selective Reenlistment Program," Human Resource Management,, Vol 46, No 1, Spring 2007, 21-34. (with J. West)
  (Available at Wiley InterScience)

• "Do Lower Student to Counselor Ratios Reduce School Disciplinary Problems?," Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 5: No. 1, Article 11, 2006. (with Susan Carrell)
  (Available at BE Press)

• "Optimal Compensating Wages for Military Personnel," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Fall 2005. (with J. West)
  (Available at Wiley InterScience)

Working Papers

• "Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors," Revise and Resubmit (2nd round), Journal of Political Economy, NBER WP #14081. (with J. West)
  (PDF copy of Aug 2009 version) (Available at NBER)
  featured in InsideHigherEd.com, July 11, 2008

• "Beware of Economists Bearing Reduced Forms? An Experiment in How Not to Improve Student Outcomes," (with B. Sacerdote and J. West)
  (PDF copy of Sep 2009 version)

• "In Harms Way? Payday Loan Access and Military Personnel Performance," Working Paper. (with J. Zinman)
  (PDF copy of Aug 2008 version)

• "Combating Negative Peer Effects: Evidence from Judicial and School Resource Interventions," Working Paper. (with M. Hoekstra)
  (PDF copy of June 2009 version)

• "Is Poor Fitness Contagious? Evidence from Randomly Assigned Friends," Working Paper. (with M. Hoekstra & J. West)
  (PDF Copy of Jan 2010 version)

• "Does Drinking Impair College Performance? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach," Working Paper. (with M. Hoekstra & J. West)
  (Coming Soon)

Research in Progress

• "Getting Qualified High School Seniors to Enroll in College: An Experimental Study in Vermont," (with B. Sacerdote)

• "Can the Number of Female Scientists and Engineers be Engineered? A Controlled Experiment in Professor Gender," (with M. Page and J. West)

• "Network Formation and Peer Effects in the US Air Force Academy" (with N. Christakis, G. Imbens, and J. West)

• "Does Making the "A" Matter? Self-Perception, Ability, and Student Outcomes," (with M. Page and J. West)

• "School Start Time and Student Achievement: Evidence from Randomization," (with T. Maghakian and J. West)

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Revised February 8, 2009