Scott A. Imberman is a professor of economics and education. He is an economist who specializes in the economics of education and education policy. His research focuses on issues in domestic education and he has recently studied returns to higher education, charter schools, gifted education, and teacher incentives, with work published in outlets such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and Education Finance and Policy. Currently he is embarking on a research agenda that focuses on economic issues and policy in special education and autism. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research network affiliate at the Center for Economic Studies/Ifo Institute, and a co-editor for Economics of Education Review.