Susan Dynarski

Funded Research:

Why are Some Charter Schools More Effective than Others? Econometric Methods and Empirical Evidence from Massachusetts, Michigan, and Texas. (U.S. Department of Education)

IES Center Proposal National Research and Development Center on Postsecondary Education and Employment (U. S. Department of Health and Human Services - Agency for Health Care Research and Quality)

Measuring and Understanding the Effectiveness of Michigan Charter Schools, Ammended Y2-3 (Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc.)

Measuring and Understanding the Effectiveness of Michigan Charter Schools (Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc.)

University of Michigan Post-doctoral Training Program in Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Methods for Education Research (U.S. Department of Education)

The Impact of the Michigan Merit Curriculum and Michigan Promise Scholarship on Student Outcomes (U.S. Department of Education)

Ph.D., MIT

Susan Dynarski is an Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She is a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Princeton University. She is an editor of The Journal of Labor Economics and Education Finance and Policy. Dynarski’s research focuses on charter schools, demand for private schooling, historical trends in inequality in educational attainment and the optimal design of financial aid. Her previous research explored the impact of grants and loans on educational attainment and the distributional consequences of tax incentives for college saving.