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Jill M. Constantine
Senior Economist; Associate Director; Education Area Leader
Jill Constantine is a senior economist, associate director of Human Services Research, and education area leader at Mathematica. An expert in evaluating education interventions for at-risk children and youth, she has technical expertise in using random assignment, matching procedures such as propensity scoring, and advanced statistical modeling.
Constantine directs the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) as well as Mathematica’s evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund grants.
Constantine, who joined Mathematica in 2001, directed the firm’s study of the efficacy of different teacher preparation methods in contributing to the academic achievement of elementary school students. She also directed Mathematica’s evaluation of Talent Search, one of the federal TRIO programs designed to improve access to college for low-income students, and has designed evaluation studies of other college-access programs. She has conducted impact and statistical analyses on several large-scale projects, including the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, which focused on the cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes of young children and parenting skills of their parents.
Before joining the firm, she was an assistant professor at Williams College. She has published in and serves as a reviewer for a number of peer-reviewed journals, including Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Industrial Relations, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Review of African American Education. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Teacher training, quality and compensation
- Access to college for low income students
- Experimental and nonexperimental methods for evaluating education interventions
- Systematic reviews
- Reviewer of peer-reviewed journals, including Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Industrial Relations, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Review of African American Education
- "Helping Students Navigate the Path to College: What High Schools Can Do” (September 2009)
- "An Evaluation of Teachers Trained Through Different Routes to Certification" (February 2009)
- "Mother-Child Bookreading in Low-Income Families: Correlates and Outcomes During the First Three Years of Life." Child Development (July/August 2006)