Cora Wigger
Assistant Professor of Economics
Department: Economics
Email: cwigger@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 278-5243
News & Notes
Research
“Investigating the ’Draw of Home’ and Teachers’ Career Decisions” (With Naomi Blaushild & Claire Mackevicius), (EdWorkingPaper: 23-826). Forthcoming at Education Finance and Policy
“Persistence and Variation of Schools as Housing Amenities,” Regional Science and Urban Economics. January 2025, 110.
Book Review of “Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity” by Matthew Garnder Kelly, Historical Studies in Education. Fall 2024, 36(2).
“Do School Spending Cuts Matter? Evidence from the Great Recession” (With C. Kirabo Jackson and Heyu Xiong). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. May 2021, 13(2).
Current Projects
“Unflattening: Developing a Framework to Illuminate How K-12 School District Agency and Power Shape Racialized Hierarchies” (With Claire L. Mackevicius, Charity P. Scott, & Nicole Rodriguez Leach), Under Review
"Relationships between School Spending and Housing Values: A National Exploration and Insights for Future Work," (With Claire Mackevicius), Under Review
"Neighborhoods After the End of Racial Busing" (With Stephen Billings)
Grants Awarded
2024 Love School of Business Summer Research
2023 Hultquist Award for New Faculty Research
2022-2024 Advancing Equity Scholar, Elon University