Susan M. Dynarski

Susan Dynarski is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her focus is 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.

Dynarksi has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, and the President's Commission on Tax Reform. She has consulted broadly with government agencies. Dynarski has served on the board of editors of the American Economic Journal/Economic Policy, The Journal of Labor Economics and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. She has served on the board of the Association for Public Policy and Management. She is past president of the Association for Education Finance and Policy and Midwest Economics Association.

Dynarski was previously at 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. She earned an A.B. in social studies from Harvard, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT.