Melissa Schettini Kearney | |
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| Born | Melissa Jean Schettini 1974 (age 49–50) |
| Education | Princeton University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Spouse | Daniel Patrick Kearney Jr. |
| Children | 3 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economics |
| Institutions | Wellesley College Brookings Institution University of Maryland |
| Doctoral advisor | Jonathan Gruber and Joshua Angrist |
| Website | www |
Melissa Schettini Kearney (born 1974) is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park[1] and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).[2] She is also director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group;[3] a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution; a scholar affiliate and member of the board of the Notre Dame Wilson-Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO);[4] and a scholar affiliate of the MIT Abdul Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).[5] She has been an editorial board member of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy since 2019 and of the Journal of Economic Literature since 2017.[6] Kearney served as director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings from 2013 to 2015[7] and as co-chair of the JPAL State and Local Innovation Initiative from 2015 to 2018.[8]