FORA.tv Speaker - Susan Dynarski

Susan Dynarski, Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, studies and teaches the economics of education and tax policy. She has a special interest in the interaction of inequality and education. She has been a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1999 and a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. Professor Dynarski has studied the impact of grants and loans on college attendance; the impact of state policy on college completion rates; and the distributional aspects of college savings incentives. Her current research focuses on the effect of academic preparation on college success, gender gaps in education outcomes and simplification of the federal student aid system. She has testified on her research to the United States Senate and the President's Commission on Tax Reform.