Jennifer Imazeki

Jennifer Imazeki
Jennifer Imazeki
Professor of Economics and Director of the SDSU Center for Teaching & Learning,
San Diego State University

Jennifer Imazeki is director of the Center for Teaching & Learning, a senate distinguished professor, and a professor of economics at San Diego State University (SDSU). She teaches courses in applied microeconomics and data analysis. She has worked on several projects to train middle and high school teachers to use economics to teach Common Core skills; she also created an economics for teachers course for SDSU undergraduate students working toward their single-subject teaching credential in social science. Her teaching work dovetails with her research on the economics of K–12 education, including work on school finance reform, adequacy, and teacher labor markets. Imazeki is a member of the American Economic Association (AEA) and has served on the board of directors of the Association of Education Finance and Policy, the AEA’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, and the AEA’s Committee on Economic Education. She received her PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.

updated 2018

Publications by Jennifer Imazeki
Performance Trends in California Schools
Jennifer Imazeki of San Diego State University analyzes recent performance trends in California’s education system in Meeting the Challenge: Performance Trends in California Schools, a new PACE Policy Brief. Imazeki shows that California students…
The cost of education can be defined as the minimum amount of money that a school district must spend in order to achieve a given educational outcome, such as reading at a grade-appropriate level. Costs generally differ across school districts for…