Derek Rury

Derek Rury’s work focuses on the economics of education, particularly how students’ and parents’ beliefs influence their educational decisions and outcomes. He also studies the labor market consequences of those decisions as well as how educational institutions and policy shape the way students think and behave. Derek holds a Master of Public Administration degree from New York University. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at the University of California at Davis and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.