Judith Scott-Clayton

Judith Scott-Clayton is an assistant professor of economics and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she teaches labor economics and a course on causal inference. She is also a senior research associate at the Community College Research Center based at Teachers College.

Her primary research fields are labor economics and higher education policy. Particular interests include financial aid policy, student employment, achievement incentives, remedial education, and the behavioral economics of educational policy and program design.

Professor Scott-Clayton has a B.A. from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.