Dr. Todd Hall is currently a Program Analyst II at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction School Business Office. In this role, he analyzes data, automates processes, and modernizes systems involved in financing school districts and charter schools statewide.

He was previously a Quantitative Research Scientist at Gibson Consulting Group. There, he conducted program evaluations for school districts and managed data to administer surveys and measure outcomes for more than 30,000 students in special education exiting high school in Texas. At Gibson, Dr. Hall analyzed statewide longitudinal data, managed large-scale survey data collection, and developed interactive data visualizations in partnership with state education agencies and school districts.

Dr. Hall received his PhD in Education Policy at the University of Virginia, where he was an IES-Predoctoral Fellow and an AERA-NSF Dissertation Fellow. His job market paper used quasi-experimental methods to assess the impact of a 2017 ban on corporal punishment for students with disabilities.

Before graduate school, he analyzed data at Empatico, an ed-tech nonprofit, and provided technical assistance at J-PAL North America, an economics research center at MIT. In addition to his PhD, Dr. Hall holds an MPP from the University of Virginia and a BA in Political Economy from Williams College.