Brian P. McCall
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Location
610 E. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1259
Dr. McCall is a professor of education, economics and public policy at the University of Michigan, where he holds appointments at the School of Education, Department of Economics and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He is a visiting fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies. McCall has been a visiting fellow at Cambridge University, Dalhousie University, and University of California, Berkeley as well as a professor at the University of Minnesota. He currently is a co-editor of Economics of Education Review.
McCall’s primary fields of interest are economics of education, program evaluation, and labor economics. His current research focuses on the effect of tuition subsidies on college attendance, the influence of family wealth on college attendance and completion, the effect of financial aid packages on college attendance, completion and subsequent labor market earnings, the influence of education on job displacement and subsequent earnings, the impact of unemployment insurance rules on unemployment durations and re-employment wages, and the determinants and consequences of repeat use of the unemployment insurance system.
Courses
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| EDUC 768 | Economics of Education
This course is an introduction to the economics of education. The central aim of the course is to assist students in viewing the education “industry” and its educational processes through the perspective of economics. Several tools of economic analysis are used to address the links between education and economic growth, consumption, investment, employment, and equity. Students are afforded an opportunity to examine an important issue related to the economics of education, which helps them to become more knowledgeable about the economics of education literature and learn how to apply the tools of economic analysis to an important policy issue. |
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| EDUC 793 | Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Educational Research
Prerequisites: Graduate standing at the doctoral level. |
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| EDUC 471 | Topics in Higher and Postsecondary Education
An introductory seminar focused on current issues and topics in higher education. Accordingly, the topic and instructor may vary each time the seminar is offered. This seminar is primarily targeted for upper-division undergraduates and master’s level graduate students. |
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| EDUC 795 | Quantitative Methods for Non-Experimental Research
Prerequisites: EDUC 793 or equivalent. |
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| EDUC 771 | Topics in Higher and Postsecondary Education
Explores new topic areas, which may vary each time the seminar is offered, according to mutual interest of a limited number of students with one or more faculty members. Often the seminar is generated by a group of interested students and the resulting material is incorporated into existing courses or leads to development of new courses. May be elected more than once. |