Lori L. Taylor
Associate Professor
Professor Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the Bush School of Government and Public Service; a Program Area Leader for School Finance, Facilities and Organizations in the State of Texas Education Research Center at Texas A&M; and an adjunct Assistant Professor in A&M's Department of Economics. She has written extensively on variations in the cost of education and recently developed a Comparable Wage Index for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Professor Taylor's current projects explore differences in teacher quality between charter and traditional public schools, the impact of facilities on school productivity, and the effects of performance pay on teacher turnover and school productivity. Her work on school finance issues has been published in The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Urban Economics, Education Finance and Policy, and The Journal of Education Finance. She is a member of the NCES Finance Technical Review Panel, a member of the American Education Finance Association's Board of Directors, and a Research Affiliate of the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, Professor Taylor was a Senior Economist and Policy Advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. She holds a B.A. in economics and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Kansas, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester.
