Todd Stinebrickner

Todd Stinebrickner serves as a Professor at Western University specializing in labor economics with a focus on educational decision-making. He directs the Berea Panel Study, a longitudinal research initiative tracking low-income students through college and into early career stages to analyze critical life choices.

His academic background includes a B.S. in Mathematics (Summa cum laude) from St. Bonaventure University (1992), followed by an M.A. (1993) and Ph.D. (1996) in Economics from the University of Virginia.

Research centers on how socioeconomic factors influence educational attainment and labor outcomes, with recent projects examining marriage/childbearing impacts on labor supply, time-use patterns and peer effects in college environments, and gender wage disparities tied to job tasks among graduates. This work provides empirical foundations for education policy interventions targeting disadvantaged populations.

As director of the Berea Panel Study, Stinebrickner oversees a unique dataset capturing longitudinal behavioral trends among low-income students, enabling analysis of college persistence, career trajectories, and socioeconomic mobility determinants through structured cohort tracking.