Cory Koedel, Ph.D.

Cory Koedel, Ph.D., is the Middlebush Chair in Economics and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Missouri. He is a Co-PI on the ERRE Center. His research focuses on teacher labor markets, teacher evaluation, and educator compensation, with a strong methodological grounding in applied econometrics and causal inference. Cory has served on numerous influential technical advisory bodies, including the Growth Model Technical Advisory Committee for MO DESE, the Technical Advisory Group for the National Council on Teacher Quality, and the REL Central Governing Board. He has held editorial leadership roles at multiple top journals, including as former Coeditor of Economics of Education Review and current editorial board member at Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Education Finance and Policy, Research in Higher Education, and the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness. As PI or Co-PI on grants from the IES, NSF, and several foundations, Cory has supported a broad research agenda on teacher evaluations and labor markets. He has an extensive publication record in leading journals such as the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, American Educational Research Journal, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Educational Researcher.