Alex Eble

Alex Eble

Research Interest

Development economics; applied microeconomics; economics of education; China

Alex Eble is associate professor of economics and education at Columbia University's graduate school of education, Teachers College. His research focuses primarily on two key themes: the economics of education in low-income contexts, and the economics of beliefs and information applied to education and inequality. He has published his work in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Nature Human Behavior. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Institute of Education Sciences, Spencer Foundation, and Jacobs Foundation. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Faculty Affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). He received his PhD in economics from Brown University.

Visit Professor Eble’s website at www.alexeble.com

PUBLICATIONS

“On Minimizing the Risk of Bias in Randomized Controlled Trials in Economics”, World Bank Economic Review, 2017

“Remedial After-school Support Classes Offered in Rural Gambia (The SCORE Trial): Study Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial”, Trials, 2015, 16:574