Dr. Carycruz Bueno is an assistant professor of economics at Wesleyan University. She is an applied microeconomist who studies how education policy can eradicate education inequality. Her research addresses topics such as virtual schools, school choice, teacher labor markets, and student non-cognitive skills. Her research interest stems from her experience as a special education teacher with Teach For America Hawaii. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation, American Society of Hispanic Economists, National Economics Association, and Southern Economics Association.
Prior to joining Wesleyan University, Carycruz worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Annenberg Institute and The Policy Lab at Brown University. In addition to her research, she has greatly enjoyed teaching both at Georgia State University and at Spelman College.
Carycruz has been featured in The Atlantic, NPR’s Planet Money, Bloomberg, and Politico Nightly, and in 2021, she was named an Emerging Education Policy Scholar by Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
Carycruz earned her Ph.D. in Economics at Georgia State University. Prior to graduate school, Carycruz attended Mount Holyoke College where she studied economics, mathematics and romance languages.
