NBER profile: Susan M. Dynarski.

Susan M. Dynarski has been a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1999. She is a member of the NBER's Programs of Research on Children, Education, and Public Economics. She is also an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. She received her A.B. in Social Studies and her Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University and has a Ph.D. in economics from MIT.

Dynarski studies and teaches the economics of education and tax policy with a special interest in the interaction of inequality and education. She has analyzed the impact of grants and loans on college attendance, the effect of state policy on...