Lief Esbenshade

Doctoral Candidate

Stanford University

Biography

Lief Esbenshade is a doctoral candidate at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. His research interests include teacher evaluation, teacher labor markets, and measurement theory. He earned a 5-12 social studies teaching license in Minnesota, and developed student growth models for the New York City Department of Education. He is also interested in open science and reproducible research.

Interests

Teacher Evaluation
Teacher Mobility
Causal Inference
Measurement Theory

Education

PhD in Economics of Education, Expected 2020

Stanford University
Masters in Economics, 2018

Stanford University
BA in Economics, 2012

Carleton College