David Nicholas Figlio (born October 14, 1970) is the Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics at the

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. He is an American economist who formerly served as the Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at

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. He also served as the Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy and is the former director of Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research. He is known for studying school accountability and

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, immigrants in schools, economics of the family, the relationship between early health and later life outcomes, and topics in higher education. He also has studied the relationship between children's names and their later educational outcomes. He served as

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of the ''

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''. In 2017, he was elected to the

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. In January 2022, Figlio was named the

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and Chief Academic Officer of

. He started his tenure at University of Rochester in June 2022. On June 9, 2024, he announced his resignation as Provost of the

, effective August 2024.

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