Steven Rivkin

Steven Rivkin 

Bio and Research Interests

Steven Rivkin is professor and head of the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois Chicago, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and fellow at CES-IFO Research Institute in Germany and the International Academy of Education. He is the author of many studies in the economics and sociology of education including educator effectiveness and labor markets, educator evaluation and compensation reforms in large urban districts, charter schools, school desegregation, accountability, class size reduction, peer influences, the geography of academic mobility and instruction time. His work focuses on the United States, but he has also written on education in Chile and Central Europe. His recent work focuses on educator and school effects on post-secondary outcomes including engagement with the criminal justice system. Rivkin has served on numerous government advisory committees and task forces and was a member of the Amherst and Amherst Regional School Boards. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. from the UCLA Department of Economics.