Elizabeth U. Cascio is Professor of Economics and DeWalt H. 1921 and Marie H. Ankeny Professor in Economic Policy at Dartmouth College and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She currently serves as an elected member of the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association and an Editor at the Journal of Labor Economics, and has served as an elected member of the Executive Board of the Society of Labor Economists and a co-editor at the Journal of Human Resources. Cascio specializes in the study of education, public policy, and children’s well-being in historical perspective. Her recent work has explored how policy design and political voice affect the acquisition of human capital in under-resourced communities, focusing on early childhood education, school finance, and immigration in the 20th century United States.