Taylor Odle
Taylor Odle
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Taylor Odle (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As an applied quantitative policy scholar, Taylor's work leverages causal inference and data science techniques to study issues in the economics of education with a specific focus on college access and success. Throughout his research, Taylor conducts field experiments with national partners and completes quasi-experimental evaluations of existing policies to study “what works” for improving students’ transitions to and through college—and at raising social and economic mobility for traditionally underserved populations. Much of this work focuses on college admissions practices, financial aid, and college advising and coaching examined through research-practice partnerships. He is a faculty affiliate in Data Science, the Institute for Research on Poverty, the Institute for Diversity Science, and the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences and teaches courses in the economics of education, higher education policy, applied quantitative methods, and cost-effectiveness/benefit-cost analysis.
Taylor has secured over $2.7 million in competitive awards and contracts as Principal Investigator since 2020, and his work has been published in leading peer-reviewed outlets, including the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Economics of Education Review, Educational Researcher, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Education Finance and Policy, The Journal of Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, and Research in Higher Education. These works have also been featured by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Hill, Forbes, Bloomberg, Inside Higher Ed, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and others. Taylor is a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, and the American Journal of Evaluation. He received the 2023 Raymond Vernon Memorial Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management.
Taylor is a former Summer Fellow with the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, and his dissertation, Three Essays in Economics, Education Policy, and Inequality, was supported by an AERA-NSF Dissertation Grant and won the 2023 American Educational Research Association (Division J) Outstanding Dissertation Award.
Taylor holds a Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Pennsylvania, an A.M. in statistics and data science from The Wharton School, and a M.Ed. in higher education from Vanderbilt University. He previously led fiscal policy and research activities for the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, apprenticed at MDRC and the National Student Clearinghouse, and interned with the College Board and U.S. Senate.
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