BIOGRAPHY
Li Feng is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Finance and Economics at Texas State University. She has served as a faculty research fellow with the LBJ Institute for STEM Education and Research. During 2016-2017, she served as a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Education Policy Analysis at Stanford University and a Visiting Fellow in the Brown Center on Education Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. She also worked on several different research projects as an adjunct economist with the RAND Corporation and an affiliated researcher with the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.
Her research interests include the economics of education, labor economics, and health economics. Specifically, her work examines education policy issues related to teachers such as the relationship between teacher quality (value-added) and student outcomes, the nexus of school accountability and teacher labor market, the connection between classroom characteristics and teacher mobility, and the role of Collective Bargaining Agreements in the distribution of teachers across schools. She has published in both economics and education journals such as the Journal of Urban Economics (2), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Education Finance and Policy (2), Economics of Education Review (2), American Journal of Health Behavior (2), the Atlantic Economic Journal (2), Education Economics, Educational Policy, Journal of the American Pharmacist Association, and Southern Economic Journal.
Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences, the American Educational Research Association, and the National Academy of Sciences. She received her B.A. in International Economic Cooperation from Xi’an Foreign Language University in China, and her Ph.D. in Economics and Education Specialist in Education (Ed.S.) from Florida State University.