Cecilia E. Rouse's primary research and teaching interests are in labor economics with a particular focus on the economics of education. She has studied the economic benefit of community college attendance, evaluated the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, examined the effects of education inputs on student achievement, and tested for the existence of discrimination in symphony orchestras. Her current research includes studies of Florida's school ccountability system and randomized evaluations of the use of computers in schools. She is the director of the Princeton Education Research Section. In 1998-99 she served a year in the White House at the National Economic Council. Ph.D. Harvard University.