Diane Schanzenbach

Diane Schanzenbach
Born Diane Miriam Whitmore
1972 (age 45–46)
Spouse(s) Max Schanzenbach
Institution Northwestern University
Field Economic policy
Alma mater Princeton University (Ph.D., 2002)

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (born 1972 as Diane Miriam Whitmore)[1] is an American economist who studies the effects of policies aimed at alleviating child poverty, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). She is currently on leave from her position at Northwestern University as Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at their School of Education and Social Policy. She is also the director of the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution,[2] and the chair of the Program on Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research, where she is also a faculty fellow.[3]

Education and career

Schanzenbach received her bachelor's degree in religion and economics magna cum laude from Wellesley College in 1995, and her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2002.[2] Before joining the faculty of Northwestern, she taught at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy and served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.[4]

Honors and awards

Schanzenbach is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In 2013, she received the annual Raymond Vernon Memorial Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.[5]

Personal life

Schanzenbach is married to Max Schanzenbach, a professor at Northwestern University School of Law. As of 2015, they live in the North Shore neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois with their three children.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Diane Schanzenbach". Name Authority File. Library of Congress. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach". Hamilton Project. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach". Institute for Policy Research. Northwestern University. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Northwestern University Professor to Speak on the Causes and Consequences of Food Insecurity". Washington & Lee University. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach". School of Education and Social Policy. Northwestern University. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Understanding the Effects of Early Investments in Children". NBER Reporter. National Bureau of Economic Research. 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
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