The Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research will be researching the effects of career technical education programs in K–12 schools to share with policymakers across the country.
The Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research has received supplemental funding from the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research that will help with research centered around Tennessee Promise.
The Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research is partnering with Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development and the Tennessee Higher Education Commission to research the effectiveness of initiatives developed under the state’s “Drive to 55” campaign.
Center for Business and Economic Research faculty member Celeste Carruthers and Economics faculty member Marianne Wanamaker were recently featured in The Atlantic. In the article, Carruthers and Wanamaker shed light on today’s racial wage gap by turning to history.