Author

David J. Deming

Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

David Deming is a Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses broadly on the economics of education, with a particular interest in the impact of education policies on long-term outcomes other than test scores. He was named a William T. Grant Scholar in 2013 for a project on school accountability and received the 2015 Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Early Career Award.

Professor Deming holds a PhD in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Master of Public Policy from University of California-Berkeley. He also serves as a Coeditor for the Journal of Human Resources and serves on the Board of Editors for the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.