#  Eric Taylor 

Affiliated Researcher; PIER Fellowship Faculty Mentor; SDP Fellowship Faculty Advisor 

Assistant Professor of Education

Harvard Graduate School of Education

 

 

 



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 Eric Taylor is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He studies the economics of education, with a particular interest in employer-employee interactions between schools and teachers — hiring and firing decisions, job design, training, and performance evaluation. His work has been published in the *American Economic Review*, *Journal of Human Resources*, and *Journal of Public Economics*; and featured in *Slate*, *Time*, *The Washington Post*, and *Education Week*. Taylor was a Spencer Dissertation Fellow in 2014, and was recognized for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring by the Stanford Graduate School of Education in 2013.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Role
    
     [Faculty](/faculty) [Harvard Faculty](/harvard-faculty)
- ## Projects
    
     [Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Fellowship](/projects/partnering-education-research-pier-fellowship) [Strategic Data Project](/project-name/strategic-data-project)