Jeffrey T. Denning

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Brigham Young University

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Jeff Denning is an Associate Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University.

His research focuses on the economics of education. He is interested in individual and institutional factors affecting human capital investment in college. To date, he has worked on college access, college completion, financial aid, effects of peers, STEM education, wage returns to college, and other topics.

He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in peer reviewed journals such as the Journal of Human Resources, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. His work has been supported by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, the Jameel Poverty Action Lab, the Spencer Foundation, the Larry J Arnold Foundation, and the Kresge Foundation.

Jeff joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in May 2017.


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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14338
Decreasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States
Jeffrey T. Denning, Eric R. Eide, Kevin J. Mumford, Daniel Sabey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14325
The Return to Hours Worked within and across Occupations: Implications for the Gender Wage Gap
Jeffrey T. Denning, Brian A. Jacob, Lars Lefgren, Christian vom Lehn
forthcoming in: ILR Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12411
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?
Jeffrey T. Denning, Eric R. Eide, Merrill Warnick
forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12239
Maxed Out? The Effect of Larger Student Loan Limits on Borrowing and Education Outcomes
Jeffrey T. Denning, Todd R. Jones
forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11808
Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes
Jeffrey T. Denning, Richard J. Murphy, Felix Weinhardt
forthcoming in: The Review of Economics and Statisics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11792
ProPelled: The Effects of Grants on Graduation, Earnings, and Welfare
Jeffrey T. Denning, Benjamin M. Marx, Lesley Turner
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (3), 193-224
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10997
Broken Tax Breaks? Evidence from a Tax Credit Information Experiment with 1,000,000 Students
Peter Bergman, Jeffrey T. Denning, Dayanand Manoli
published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019, 38 (3), 706-731
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10913
Born Under a Lucky Star: Financial Aid, College Completion, Labor Supply, and Credit Constraints
Jeffrey T. Denning
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (3), 760-784
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