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Damon Clark is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. He holds affiliations as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an International Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS, London), and a Research Fellow at IZA (Bonn). His research focuses on the economics of education, labor economics, and public economics, with notable work on school choice, educational policy impacts, and long-term outcomes of elite schooling.
Clark earned his D.Phil. (PhD) and M.Phil. in Economics from Nuffield College, Oxford University (2002 and 1997), and a BA in Economics from Newcastle University (1994). Before academia, he worked as a researcher for Ruth Kelly MP and at the Social Market Foundation.
Research Interests: His work explores school quality, educational signaling, peer effects, and policy impacts. He uses econometric methods to analyze topics like school autonomy, equity-based priorities, and the effects of recessions on education enrollment. Recent projects include studies on parental school-choice behavior and the effectiveness of test-based retention policies.
Grants & Awards: Notable grants include a $1.68M Institute of Education Sciences grant for analyzing test retention policies and a $519k WT Grant Foundation award for equitable school access research. He received the UC Irvine Faculty Mentoring Award (2015-16) and Excellence in Refereeing Awards from leading journals.
Teaching & Service: He teaches graduate courses in labor economics and applied microeconomic methods. He serves on editorial boards for journals like the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and is a frequent invited speaker at global institutions, including Columbia University, Stockholm University, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
