Economist to Give Lecture in Education Reform Series

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Rajashri Chakrabarti, senior economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will give a lecture at noon Friday, Dec. 1, on the University of Arkansas campus as part of the Department of Education Reform lecture series. Her lecture is titled "The Effect of State Funding for Postsecondary Education on Long-Run Student Outcomes."

RSVP online for lunch on the lecture website. Deadline to RSVP is 1 p.m. Wednesday before the lecture. It will take place in Room 343 of the Graduate Education Building.

Chakrabarti is a senior economist in the Microeconomic Studies Function. Her primary areas of interest include labor economics, economics of education, and public economics.

Her research focuses on credit access and effects on educational investment decisions and future financial and economic outcomes, costs and returns to for-profit education, consumer debt, accountability and school choice, education finance, and econometric approaches to program evaluation. Prior to joining the New York Fed, Chakrabarti was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University in the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Program on Education Policy and Governance. She holds a doctorate in Economics from Cornell University.