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, New College, Oxford. 

McCall has been a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge, Dalhousie University, and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a professor at the University of Minnesota. He previously was a co-editor of the Economics of Education Review.

McCall’s primary fields of interest are labor economics, program evaluation, and the economics of education. His current research focuses on the effect of tuition subsidies on college attendance, the effect of financial aid packages on college attendance, completion, and subsequent labor market earnings, and the impact of unemployment insurance rules on unemployment durations and re-employment wages of job losers.

M.A.  and Ph.D. Princeton University, B.A. University of California, Los Angeles