Julie Berry Cullen

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Julie Berry Cullen
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
Scientific career
Institutions University of California, San Diego
University of Michigan
Northwestern University
Thesis Essays on special education finance and intergovernmental relations  (1997)

Julie Berry Cullen is an American economist who is a professor and Chair of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. She is also a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research considers public economics and the economics of education.

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Early life and education

Cullen was an undergraduate student at Stanford University, where she majored in economics and English. [1] She moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a doctoral researcher, where she studied special education finance. [2] After earning her doctorate, she was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship. [3] She investigated the relationship between crime rates and people leaving cities, showing that each additional reported crime was associated with a one-person decline in population. [4]

Research and career

In 1997, Cullen joined the University of Michigan as an assistant professor of economics. [5] In Michigan, she studied the Disability insurance (DI) program and the welfare implications of increasing benefit generosity. [6] She spent six years in Michigan before moving to the University of California, San Diego.[ citation needed ] Cullen was made associate professor in 2006 and professor in 2013.[ citation needed ] She was promoted to chair of the department in 2021. She holds a research fellowship with the National Bureau of Economic Research. [7]

Cullen is an expert in public economics and the economics of education. [8] She has studied strategies to improve struggling high schools, and showed that expanding access to education that provides work experiences and life skills is a cost-effective way to benefit people on low incomes. [9] She has investigated the relationships between political alliances and tax evasion. She proposed that when people do not believe the government shares their values, they are more willing to rationalize cheating and misreport their taxable income. [3] Cullen showed that when people move out of political alliances they are less likely to comply with tax laws. [3] In that sense, evading tax is more like resisting tax.

Cullen investigated whether sorting students by ability improves learning or increases disparities, and found that it does not harm low-achieving students but benefits high-achieving students. She hypothesized that this was because low achieving students benefited from smaller class sizes, whilst high achieving students benefited from more advanced peers. [10] Her research has shown that the United States is not training enough young people with skills in mathematics, particularly young people from disadvantaged communities. [11]

Awards and honors

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References

  1. ↑ "Julie-Berry Cullen - Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality". inequality.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  2. ↑ Cullen, Julie Berry (1997). Essays on special education finance and intergovernmental relations (Thesis thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  3. 1 2 3 "Julie Berry Cullen - College of Letters & Science | Montana State University". www.montana.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  4. ↑ Cullen, Julie Berry; Levitt, Steven D. (1999). "Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities". The Review of Economics and Statistics. 81 (2): 159–169. ISSN   0034-6535.
  5. ↑ "Julie Berry Cullen – MRDRC" . Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  6. ↑ Bound, John; Cullen, Julie Berry; Nichols, Austin; Schmidt, Lucie (2002). "The Welfare Implications of Increasing DI Benefit Generosity". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.1086395. hdl: 2027.42/50596 . ISSN   1556-5068.
  7. ↑ "Julie Berry Cullen". NBER. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  8. ↑ "Economics of Education in Europe - Julie Berry Cullen". www.education-economics.org. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  9. ↑ Cullen, Julie Berry; Levitt, Steven D.; Robertson, Erin; Sadoff, Sally (May 2013). "What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools?". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 27 (2): 133–152. doi: 10.1257/jep.27.2.133 . ISSN   0895-3309.
  10. ↑ "Does Sorting Students by Ability Improve Learning or Increase Disparity? | Econofact". econofact.org. 2022-10-03. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  11. ↑ "Pre-pandemic, more U.S. students were excelling in math". The Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  12. 1 2 3 "Faculty Departmental Awards Archive". economics.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
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