Carolyn Tsao

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Princeton University. 


I study how non-wage amenities affect job choice and worker productivity, with a focus on teacher labor markets.


I am currently on the 2024/25 academic job market.


My CV is available here

Email: ctsao [at] princeton [dot] edu

Working Papers


It's Not (Just) About the Money: Evaluating Whether Teachers Earn Rents (Job Market Paper)

Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2024 CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on Economics of Education 


Managers in Public Schools


The Effects of Prohibiting Marriage Bars: The Case of U.S. Teachers (submitted)

with Amy Kim

Works in Progress


Manager Feedback Style and Worker Productivity (draft available on request)

with Calvin Jahnke and Gabor Nyeki

References 

Professor Alexandre Mas

Haas School of Business

University of California, Berkeley

amas@berkeley.edu 


Professor David Lee

Department of Economics

Princeton University

davidlee@princeton.edu 

Professor Ilyana Kuziemko

Department of Economics

Princeton University

kuziemko@princeton.edu