John Tyler
Associate Professor:
Education
Phone: +1 401 863 1036
Phone 2: +1 401 863 2407
John_Tyler@Brown.EDU
John Tyler has research interests in human capital development; program evaluation; examining returns to skills in the labor market; K-12 school reform; adult education; prison-based education and training. His current research includes a study of how criminal justice system experiences (including education and training programs) impact offender's reintegration into the mainstream labor market, and a project examining the effects of GED attainment on post-secondary education.
Biography
Professor Tyler received a B.S. in mathematics and physics from Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. Following college he took over the family farming operation in West Texas for the next fourteen years. He combined his last years of farming with a position teaching middle school mathematics, a move that eventually led to doctoral studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he focused on studies in the economics of education.
Interests
Areas of Specialization: Economics of Education, Evaluation Research, Quantitative Methods
Description of Research and Teaching Interests: My current research examines the labor market outcomes of low-skilled individuals, particularly school dropouts, and the effectiveness of public policies designed to assist these individuals. My general research interests focus on examining relationships between education and the labor market, exploring school reform issues, and evaluating the impact of public policies. Two of my courses cover topics in education policy analysis and public policy program evaluation, and a third explores linkages between education and the economy.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Education/facpages/j_tyler/index.html
Degrees
Ed.D.
Awards
JOHN F. KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT. Young Faculty Leaders Forum. Invited member, first cohort of junior scholars collected from across disciplines to study current issues in education, 2002.
BROWN UNIVERSITY. Presidential Fellow, Salzburg Seminar. July, 2000.
SPENCER FOUNDATION. Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. 1997-1998.
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION. Entering Student Fellowship. 1992.
Affiliations
National Bureau of Economic Research
American Economic Association
Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management
Society of Labor Economists
American Educational Research Association
Funded Research
Five year (2002-2006), $390,000 U.S. Department of Education grant through the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy to study prison based education and vocational training programs, the effects of GED attainment on earnings and on post secondary education, and the extent to which the presence of the GED program induces students to drop out of high school.
Five year (2000-2005), $252,400 grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to assemble data and study the impact on offenders of various interactions with the criminal justice system, including participation in prison-based education programs, on post-release outcomes.