Melissa Kearney

Melissa Schettini Kearney
Born
Melissa Jean Schettini

1974 (age 49–50)
EducationPrinceton University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
SpouseDaniel Patrick Kearney Jr.
Children3
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsWellesley College
Brookings Institution
University of Maryland
Doctoral advisorJonathan Gruber and Joshua Angrist
Websitewww.econ.umd.edu/facultyprofile/kearney/melissa

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]

  1. ^ "Melissa Kearney Named as ECON Moskowitz Professor | BSOS | Behavioral & Social Sciences College | University of Maryland". bsos.umd.edu. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  2. ^ "Melissa Schettini Kearney". www.nber.org. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  3. ^ "Melissa Kearney | Aspen Ideas". Aspen Ideas Festival. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  4. ^ Dame, Marketing Communications: Web // University of Notre. "Our Advisory Board // Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities // University of Notre Dame". Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  5. ^ "Affiliated Professors | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab". www.povertyactionlab.org. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  6. ^ "American Economic Association". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  7. ^ "Melissa S. Kearney | The Hamilton Project". www.hamiltonproject.org. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  8. ^ "Kearney, Melissa – INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON POVERTY – UW–Madison". www.irp.wisc.edu. April 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2019.