Graduate Research Traineeship Program in The Economics of Education, Training, and Human Resources

最近的经济和社会变化突出了教育在决定收入、家庭结构、健康状况和其他结果方面的作用。人们还越来越担心，美国劳动力在教育数量和质量上都落后于其他国家。为了应对这些挑战，州、地方和联邦当局实施了各种教育改革，包括择校计划、磁石学校、双语教育和教师认证。这种项目的激增提供了一个独特的机会来研究什么是有效的，并影响教育政策的进程。为了利用这个机会，并指导政策制定者设计未来的改革，国家需要一支训练有素的博士专业人员队伍，他们对教育相关问题有了解，并在项目评估方面具有专业知识。这笔助学金为普林斯顿大学经济学研究生项目增加了总共5个研究生实习生名额，集中在教育、培训和人力资源开发的经济学领域。受训人员将进入现有的博士课程，并接受微观经济理论、计量经济学和劳动经济学方面的严格培训。此外，通过一系列新的和现有的方案，受训人员将在初级数据收集、计量经济模型和方案评估方面接受强化培训和实践经验。学员将唯一有资格评估过去十年的教育计划，并解决下个世纪的教育问题。

Recent economic and social changes have accentuated the role of education in determining earnings, family structure, health status and other outcomes. There is also growing concern that the US workforce is lagging behind other countries in both the quantity and quality of education. In response to these challenges, state, local, and Federal authorities have implemented a variety of education reforms, including school choice programs, magnet schools, bilingual education, and teacher certification. This proliferation of programs offers a unique opportunity to study what works and to influence the course of education policy. To exploit this opportunity and guide policy-makers in the design of future reforms, the nation requires a highly-trained force of Ph.D. professionals with knowledge of education-related issues and expertise in program evaluation. This grant adds a total of 5 Graduate Traineeships to the Princeton graduate economics program, concentrating in the economics of education, training, and human resource development. The trainees will enter the existing Ph.D. program and receive rigorous training in microeconomic theory, econometrics, and labor economics. In addition, through a series of new and existing programs, the trainees will receive intensive training and hands-on experience in primary data collection, econometric modelling, and program evaluation. The trainees will be uniquely qualified to evaluate the education programs of the past decade and address the education issues of the next century.