Stephanie Riegg Cellini
George Washington University
I am a professor of public policy and public administration, and of economics, in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University. I am also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and director of the Postsecondary Equity and Economics Research Project. I previously served as an editor of Education Finance and Policy and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In 2019, I served as a fellow with the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education and Labor. In 2022, I served as a senior consultant in the White House, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
My research focuses on the economics of education, higher education policy, and the for-profit sector specifically. Recent papers examine the labor market outcomes of for-profit college students and the impact of federal student aid on tuition. My work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, among others. It has been covered in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and other major media outlets.
I teach Benefit-Cost Analysis, Economics for Public Decision-Making, and Higher Education Finance and Policy in the Trachtenberg School. I received my M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a B.A. in public policy from Stanford University.
See the links below for more on my research, teaching, media mentions. Email me at scellini@gwu.edu.