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Susan Dynarski
Professor in the Graduate School of Education
Harvard University
Education/Degree:
1 Economics Economics (MIT)
About
Susan Dynarski is a professor at Harvard University, where she holds an appointment at the Graduate School of Education.
She recently moved from the University of Michigan, where she held appointments in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, School of Education, Department of Economics and Institute for Social Research. At Michigan, she was co-director of the Education Policy Initiative and the Michigan Education Data Center and a University Professor of Diversity and Social Transformation.
Current Work
Dynarski’s research focuses on understanding and reducing inequality in education. She uses large-scale datasets and quantitative methods of causal inference to understand the effects of charter schools, financial aid, postsecondary schooling, class size, and high school reforms on academic achievement and educational attainment. She has testified before the US Senate Committee on Finance, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, the US House Ways and Means Committee, and the President's Commission on Tax Reform. She has consulted broadly with government agencies, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, US Treasury, US Department of Education, the Council of Economic Advisers, the US Government Accountability Office, school districts and state offices.