Jane Cooley Fruehwirth
Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jane Cooley Fruehwirth is a Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, a Fellow of the University of North Carolina’s Carolina Population Center, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before coming to UNC, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin and a Reader (Associate Professor) at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Christ’s College.
Cooley Fruehwirth works on a variety of topics in the economics of education, including the effects of desegregation, grade retention, accountability, and other policies aimed at improving outcomes for traditionally disadvantaged youth. She is particularly interested in how peers, such as friendship networks, shape the outcomes of young people. Most recently, she is particularly focused on mental health in adolescence and particularly school-related supports that can bolster mental health and well-being. She is actively engaged in building research practice partnerships to bring research evidence to administrators engaged in shaping policy to improve the lives of young people.
Cooley Fruehwirth received her Ph.D. from Duke University in 2006.
