Scott Carrell is Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs in the School of Civic Leadership. He also holds an appointment in the Department of Economics, where he writes and teaches on public and labor economics. His early work focused on ways to improve military retention through local labor market forces, while his recent work specializes in the economics of education.

Before joining the university, Carrell served as an Air Force lieutenant colonel and as senior economist for public finance and labor economics on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President. He also serves as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor, and a co-faculty director of the California Education Lab.

He is the author of twenty-seven peer-reviewed journal articles.