George Orlov

George Orlov teaches economics at Cornell where he also co-directs the Economic Education Lab with Doug McKee. George and Doug have published several research papers with their students and have several more that they need to finish. They are founding members of the Economic Education Network for Experiments (EENE), and they have an NSF grant (DUE-2021094) to study the long-term effects of active learning and online education on undergraduate student learning outcomes. George was the lead post-doc for the Cornell economics department’s Active Learning Initiative project that transformed eight core courses in the department using active learning pedagogy. He also currently serves as the Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Economics at Cornell.

Before joining Cornell, George earned a PhD at the University of Western Ontario he studied immigration, school choice, and crime. He taught courses on microeconomic theory and quantitative methods at both the University of Waterloo and the University of Western Ontario.

George also has his own web site.