Erica Harbatkin is an Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Evaluation. She uses econometric research methods to examine the implementation and impact of policies related to school accountability, school improvement, and teacher labor markets. She has recently added career and technical education to that list, especially as it intersects with accountability and teacher policy. In her research, she applies an economics of education lens to isolate causal effects of policies, programs, and interventions, and then to unpack the mechanisms underlying those effects. She is a faculty affiliate at the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC) at Michigan State University. She is on the editorial boards of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA), Educational Researcher (ER), and Journal of Research in Educational Effectiveness (JREE). Erica earned a Ph.D. in educational policy with a graduate minor in quantitative methods from Vanderbilt University, a master’s of public policy (MPP) from George Washington University, and a bachelor’s degree in print and multimedia journalism from Emerson College. Prior to her work in educational policy research, Dr. Harbatkin was a reporter at daily newspapers throughout the country.