Education
Lefgren received his bachelor"s degree from Brigham Young University in 1996 and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 2001.
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Lefgren has done work showing the impact of summer schools for students requiring remediation by comparing the limit of students who barely passed and barely failed the threshold of remediation. Those parents from poor homes that request a particular teacher, ask for teachers who have reputations for student-testing improvement. He has also established that most of the test-score boost from good teaching erodes after a year.
While the scores erode, Chetty et al.
(2011) found that score improvements persist at some human capital level to improve the future wages of the student. Lefgren has expressed the opinion that "Raising the minimum wage in Utah probably wouldn"t affect much."
Lefgren is ranked in the top 6% of economists worldwide.
He also owns a poodle named Dexter. In fall of 2015, Lefgren appeared in the Divine Comedy music video "Fix You" promoting Brigham Young University OIT, using the song "Fix You" by Coldplay.
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He has shown that parents value student satisfaction in teacher selection over student achievement improvements, except for poor students. In 2007, he won the Brigham Young University"s Young Scholar Award. And, he is known for having won the competition of time spent standing on one leg in the fourth grade.
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