Jordan Matsudaira
Assistant Professor
2009
PAMWeb Bio Page
Biography
Biographical Statement
Jordan Matsudaira is a labor economist whose work addresses the effects of education, health, and welfare policies on the behavior and well-being of vulnerable populations. His current research ranges from investigating the impact of bilingual education programs on the educational and economic outcomes of the children of immigrants to a study of whether and how schools strategically respond to incentives in federal subsidy programs to secure increased funding. In other efforts, he is examining the effects of increased staffing levels on patient outcomes in nursing homes, and the extent of monopsony power in the labor market for nurses. Jordan holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Public Policy from the University of Michigan, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Post-doctoral Fellow in Health Policy Research at University of California, Berkeley before coming to Cornell.
Education
2005 Ph.D., Economics and Public Policy. University of Michigan.
2002 M.A., Economics. University of Michigan.
1996 M.P.P., Harvard University. John F. Kennedy School of Government.
1993 B.A., summa cum laude, Economics and East Asian Studies, Union College.
Keywords
labor economics, poverty, applied econometrics, monopsony, regression discontinuity, bilingual education, economics of education, matsudaira
Courses, Websites, Pubs
Courses Taught
PAM 3300: Intermediate Policy Analysis
PAM 6090: Empirical Strategies for Policy Analysis
Related Websites
Personal Site:
http://matsudaira.human.cornell.edu/
Selected Publications
Matsudaira, Jordan (2008). "Mandatory Summer School and Student Achievement." Journal of Econometrics, 142(2), 829-850. [abstract]