Using Administrative Data to Understand Income Gaps in Student Achievement

Date: 

Tuesday, September 20, 2016, 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Larsen Hall 203, Harvard Graduate School of Education

PIER Public Seminar Series

Presenter:
Susan Dynarski, 
Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics, University of Michigan

Dr. Dynarski’s talk will explore the growing gaps in educational achievement between high- and low-income children using longitudinal data from Michigan. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment. She is also a nonresident senior fellow in the Economics Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. She earned an A.B. in Social Studies at Harvard, a Masters of Public Policy from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.

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