
Paul T. Moore was a Research Analyst at the UChicago Consortium. He has substantial experience evaluating the impacts of education policies and is an expert in quasi-experimental design. His research interests include urban school reform, school choice policies and practices, and methods for causal inference. Paul has studied historical trends in student performance and school quality in Chicago, has identified indicators of student performance in middle school that best predict success in high school and in college, and has examined the impacts of elementary school closures in Chicago, the impacts of attending a higher-performing high school, and the impacts of attending a charter high school in Chicago. He has co-authored a number of journal articles and reports and his work is frequently covered in the local and national media.