Emma García

Emma García is a Senior Researcher at the Learning Policy Institute. She specializes in the economics of education and education policy. Her research areas include production of education (cognitive and socioemotional skills); evaluation of educational interventions (early childhood, K–12, and higher education); equity; teacher labor markets; school finance; and cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis in education. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University. García has held research positions at the Economic Policy Institute, the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education, the Campaign for Educational Equity, the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, and the Community College Research Center, and has consulted for MDRC, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the National Institute for Early Education Research. She received her Ph.D. in Economics and Education from Columbia University’s Teachers College.