Stephanie Owen
Title
Assistant Professor of Economics
Department
Economics
Information
Address
5237 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853
Current Courses
| Title | Course Number(s) | Section(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Principles of Microeconomics | EC133, EC133 | F, E |
| Economics of Education | EC334 | A |
| Seminar: Access, Affordability, and Equity in Higher Education | EC476 | A |
Areas of expertise: Economics of education, education policy, labor economics, causal inference, applied microeconomics
Recent publications:
- Closing the Gap: The Effect of Reducing Complexity and Uncertainty in College Pricing on the Choices of Low-Income Students (with Susan Dynarski, CJ Libassi, and Katherine Michelmore). American Economic Review (2021) 111 (6): 1721-56
- The Power of Certainty: Experimental Evidence on the Effective Design of Free Tuition Policies (with Elizabeth Burland, Susan Dynarski, Katherine Michelmore, and Shwetha Raghuraman). American Economic Review: Insights (2023) 5 (3): 293-310
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College Major Choice and Beliefs about Relative Performance: An Experimental Intervention to Understand Gender Gaps in STEM. Economics of Education Review (2023) 97: 102479
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The Advanced Placement Program and Educational Inequality. Education Finance and Policy (2025) 20 (1): 1–32.
- College Majors and Programs: Choices and Returns (with Johnathan Conzelmann and Andrew Simon). AEFP Live Handbook Chapter