Sarah Turner

University Professor of Education & Economics

E-mail:
Phone: 434-982-2383

Address:
PO Box 400265
Ruffner, 294
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4265

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Princeton University
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Michigan System : Ann Arbor

Research Projects

• CU-EDLF Aid and Application Awareness: Reaching High Achieving Students
• Aid & Application Awareness: Reaching High Achieving Students
• Federal Stimulus Funding for Research: An Assessment of Employment Responses

Current Downloadable Papers

Research Papers

"Back to School: Federal Student Aid Policy and Adult College Enrollment," (with N. Seftor), Journal of Human Resources, 2002;

Going to War and Going to College: Did the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment," (with J. Bound), Journal of Labor Economics (4), 2002

"Trade in University Training: Cross State Variation in the Production and Use of College Educated Labor," (with Bound, Groen, & Kezdi), Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 121 , 2004

"Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide: The Effects of the G.I. Bill and World War II on the Educational Outcomes of Black Americans",(with John Bound), Journal of Economic History, Vol. 63, No. 1 (March) [NBER Working Paper No. 9044], 2003.

"Race, Income and College in 25 Years: Evaluating Justice O'Connor's Conjecture" (with Alan Krueger and Jesse Rothstein), American Law and Economics Review, 2006.

"Opportunities for Low Income Students at Top Colleges and Universities: Policy Initiatives and the Distribution of Students" (with Amanda Pallais), National Tax Journal, LIX (2): 357-386, 2006.

"Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment" (with John Bound), Journal of Public Economics [NBER Working Paper No. 12424], forthcoming.