Provides research, evaluation, consulting, and technical assistance services that contribute to the lifelong process of learning and improving personal performance.

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officals.

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

Produces, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of social and behavioral interventions.

Miguel Socias, Ph. D.

Researach Scientist

Miguel Socias, Ph. D., is a Research Scientist at AIR. Dr. Socias works on the Special Education Expenditure Project (SEEP) and is responsible for designing and testing theoretical frameworks that help explain the relationship between students’ needs and educational expenditures. He designs sophisticated econometric techniques to estimate causal relationships between special education students’ characteristics and their educational expenditures. Miguel Socias joined AIR in July of 2003. Prior to this, Dr. Socias was at Stanford University obtaining a Ph.D. in Education and an M.A. in Economics.