Sarah Turner

University Professor of Economics & Education

E-mail:
Phone: 434-982-2383

Address:
PO Box 400182
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4182

Education

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

Research Projects

• Federal Stimulus Funding for Research: An Assessment of Employment Responses
  • Project Sponsored By: U.S. Nsf - Directorate Soc., Behav. & Eco. Science
  • 06/15/2009 - 12/31/2011
  • Award Amount: $199,951.00
• CU-Expanding College Opportunities/Stanford
• Project Sponsored By: Stanford University
• 03/01/2010 - 02/28/2012
• Award Amount: $303,931.00
• Expanding College Opportunities/Spencer Foundation
• Project Sponsored By: Stanford University
• 06/01/2010 - 05/31/2012
• Award Amount: $50,240.00

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.