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Come to a lecture by Susan Dynarski, professor of education at Harvard University and first-generation graduate. Her research focuses on educational inequality, program evaluation, the effectiveness of charter schools, financial aid, and the effect of education reforms on academic achievement and educational attainment.

Susan Dynarski is the Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education at Harvard University. She is a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the National Academy of Education, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Carnegie Fellow.

She has consulted on education and tax policy with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, White House, Treasury and Department of Education. She has testified to the U.S. Senate Finance and HELP Committees, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, and the President's Commission on Tax Reform.

This event is sponsored by the Provost and Dean of the Faculty Office, the Department of Economics and the Education Studies Program.