Alex Eble

Alex Eble is Associate Professor of Economics and Education at Columbia’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 is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Faculty Affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. His work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Nature Human Behavior, among other outlets. He received his PhD and AM in economics from Brown University, MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and BA from Indiana University, Bloomington.

His CV and further information are available on his personal website.

CDEP projects:

Delivering early-grade education in pockets of extreme poverty

Understanding the role of beliefs and information in shaping human capital