Riley Acton

Riley Acton is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Miami University and a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). She is an applied microeconomist specializing in the economics of education, with research on higher education topics published in journals such as the Journal of Labor Economics, Education Finance and Policy, and the Economics of Education Review. In collaboration with AEFP Live Handbook coauthor Emily Cook, Riley has studied how colleges responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their work together includes a paper on colleges’ initial reopening decisions, published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and a forthcoming paper on colleges’ vaccine mandates in the Journal of Human Resources.