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Sarah Reber   
Ph.D., Economics (Harvard University, 2003) 

Assistant Professor of Public Policy 
Phone: 310-825-1960
Fax: 310-206-0337
sreber@ucla.edu 

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Sarah Reber is an Assistant Professor of Policy Studies in the School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 2003. From 2003 to 2005, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at UC Berkeley.

Reber's primary fields are labor economics and public economics, and she is particularly interested in health and education policy. Her work in education focuses on the causes and consequences of school desegregation, including the effects of court-ordered school desegregation on segregation, white flight, and school district finances. Her work in health economics examines the effects of rising health insurance premiums on employment and a study of the advantages and disadvantages of promoting competition in health insurance markets.

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Selected Publications:  

Cutler, David M. and Sarah J. Reber. Paying for Health Insurance: The Trade-off between Competition and Adverse Selection. Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1998.

Reber, Sarah J. "Court-Ordered Desegregation: Successes and Failures in Integration Since Brown vs. Board of Education," Journal of Human Resources, vol. 40 no. 3, pp. 559-590, Summer 2005.

"From Brown to Busing," (with Elizabeth Cascio, Nora Gordon, and Ethan Lewis), Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 64 no. 2, pp. 296-325, September 2008.