Daniel Hubbard

Daniel Hubbard is an economic researcher at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in Arlington, Virginia. At AIR, Daniel has designed and conducted a variety of randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental evaluations of educational interventions, including teacher professional development, student mentoring, block grants for literacy improvement, and intensified algebra curricula. He also serves as the quantitative lead on the calculation of teacher value-added ratings for the state of Florida, and he is part of a team of researchers working to update the What Works Clearinghouse's methodological standards for education research.

Daniel received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan, in which his fields of specialty were labor economics and development economics, with a focus in the economics of education. His dissertation used administrative data from Michigan public schools to study issues in the high school-college transition, including whether schools with higher value-added ratings prepare their graduates to succeed in college, as well as the relationship between local job losses due to plant closings and students' choices about whether and where to attend college.