Eric Taylor
Biography
Eric Taylor is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Eric studies the economics of education, with a particular interest in employer-employee interactions between schools and teachers—hiring and firing decisions, job design, training, performance evaluation, compensation. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Human Resources,Journal of Labor Economics, and Journal of Public Economics; and featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Education Week. Eric was a Spencer Dissertation Fellow in 2014, and was recognized for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring by the Stanford GSE in 2013.
Publications
- Esteban Aucejo, Teresa Romano, Eric Taylor. Does evaluation change teacher effort and performance? Quasi-experimental evidence from a policy of retesting students.
- Brian A. Jacob, Jonah E. Rockoff, Eric Taylor, Benjamin Lindy, Rachel Rosen. Teacher applicant hiring and teacher performance: Evidence from DC public schools.
- Eric Bettinger, Lindsay Fox, Susanna Loeb, Eric Taylor. Virtual classrooms: How online college courses affect student success.
- Eric Bettinger, Chris Doss, Susanna Loeb, Aaron Rogers, Eric Taylor. The Effects of Class Size in Online College Courses: Experimental Evidence.
- Eric Taylor, John H. Tyler. The Effect of Evaluation on Teacher Performance.
- Thomas J. Kane, Eric Taylor, John H. Tyler, Amy L. Wooten. Identifying Effective Classroom Practices Using Student Achievement Data.
