Research

Advisors

Consultants, Lynch School of Education and Human Development

Henry Braun, Ph.D.
Boisi Professor, Department of Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics & Assessment, Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College
Director, Boston College Center for Testing, Evaluation and Educational Policy

Eric Dearing, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Counseling, Development, and Educational Psychology, Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College

Maureen Kenny, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology, Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College

Deoksoon Kim, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Teaching, Curriculum, and Society, Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College

Laura O’Dwyer, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics & Assessment, Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College

External Research and Evaluation Consultants (current)

Lisa Gennetian, Ph.D.
Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Faculty Affiliate in the Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University

Amy Heberle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Clark University

Terry Lee-St. John, Ph.D.
Biostatistician, Research Department, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Pamela Morris, Ph.D.
Professor of Applied Psychology, New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Affiliated Professor at the NYU School of Global Public Health

Richard Murnane, Ph.D.
Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Parag Pathak, Ph.D.
Class of 1922 Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tayfun Sönmez, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Economics, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College

M. Utku Ünver, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Economics, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College

External Research and Evaluation Consultants (past)

Clive Belfield, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow & Affiliated Economist, Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Economics at Queens College, City University of New York

Brooks Bowden, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Education Policy Division, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Director, Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania

Henry M. Levin, Ph.D.
William Heard Kilpatrick Professor Emeritus of Economics and Education
Founding Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
David Jacks Professor of Higher Education and Economics, Emeritus, Stanford University

Peter Steiner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor at the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland–College Park