Bridget Terry Long (born July 18, 1973) is the 12th Dean of the
Harvard Graduate School of Education
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, and the Saris Professor of Education and Economics.
She is an economist whose research focuses on college access and success. Long is a Faculty Research Associate at the
National Bureau of Economic Research
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and a member of the
National Academy of Education
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.
Biography
Long was born in
Baltimore, Maryland
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, in 1973. She spent most of her childhood in
Columbus, Ohio
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, but attended and completed high school in
Naperville, Illinois
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Naperville was founded in 1831 by Joseph Naper. The city was ...
, at
Naperville North High School
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. She earned her A.B. in Economics with a Certificate in Afro-American Studies from
Princeton University
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and her Ph.D. in Economics from
Harvard University
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. She began teaching at Harvard in 2000. She was Faculty Director of the Ed.D. and Ph.D. programs from 2010 to 2013 and Academic Dean from 2013 to 2017. She was appointed Dean on July 1, 2018.
Research
Long's research focuses on the economics of education with particular attention on the transition from high school to higher education and beyond. She has examined factors that influence student enrollment decisions, choice, and persistence in post-secondary education. Much of her work investigates the impact of education policies and programs, and several projects apply insights from behavioral economics to education.
Long has conducted several large, randomized controlled trials to establish the causal effects of interventions designed to better support students. Working with co-authors, she conducted a major study on the impact of information and assistance on completing financial aid forms (i.e. the FAFSA). The study contributed to quantitative evidence on the detrimental effects complex processes can have on educational attainment, and it has been cited in efforts to simplify the federal financial aid application. Long followed this work with studies on the effectiveness of interventions that focus on helping families save for higher education and students persist in college. She has also written about how the government and institutions could help students to make better educational decisions by providing clear, easy-to-access information.
Long has also used of state administrative data to explore long-standing questions in higher education, and she produced some of the earliest large-scale studies on the causal effects of post-secondary remediation, different types of instructors,
to the National Board for Education Sciences (NBES), which is the advisory panel of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) at the United States Department of Education, U.S. Department of Education. She served as Chair during her appointment. She has also testified multiple times before Federal Congressional Committees. Long serves of the board of MDRC and the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. She has served as an adviser to the American Council on Education
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, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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, College Board
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, I Have A Dream Foundation, Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, and the Ohio Board of Regents.
Selected works
* Castleman, Benjamin and Bridget Terry Long. (2016) “Looking Beyond Enrollment: The Causal Effect of Need-Based Grants on College Access, Persistence, and Graduation.ʺ ''Journal of Labor Economics'', 34(4), 1023-1073. doi:10.1086/686643
*Bettinger, Eric, Angela Boatman, and Bridget Terry Long. (2013) “Student Supports: Developmental Education and Other Academic Programs.” Cecilia Rouse, Lisa Barrow, and Thomas Brock, Eds. ''Future of Children: Postsecondary Education in the U.S''., 23(1), Spring. doi: 10.1353/foc.2013.0003
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* Bettinger, Eric and Bridget Terry Long. (2010) “Does Cheaper Mean Better? The Impact of using Adjunct Instructors on Student Outcomes.” ''Review of Economics and Statistics'' 92(3): 598–613. doi: 10.1162/rest_a_00014
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* Long, Bridget Terry (2004), "How Have College Decisions Changed Overtime? An Application of the Conditional Logistic Choice Model." ''Journal of Econometrics'', vol. 121, no. 1–2: pp. 271–296. DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2003.10.004
*Long, Bridget Terry. (2004), "How do Financial Aid Policies affect Colleges? The Institutional Impact of the Georgia HOPE Scholarship." ''Journal of Human Resources'', vol. 39, no. 3. doi: 10.2307/3559038
References
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American women economists
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Living people
Princeton University alumni
African-American economists
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1973 births
American women academics
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African-American educators
21st-century African-American people
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20th-century African-American people
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