Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (born 1972 as Diane Miriam Whitmore) is an American economist who studies the effects of policies aimed at alleviating

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, such as the

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(SNAP). She works at

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as Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at their School of Education and Social Policy. She is also the director of Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research and the

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, as well as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Education and career

Schanzenbach received her bachelor's degree in religion and economics ''

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'' from

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in 1995, and her Ph.D. in economics from

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in 2002. Before joining the faculty of Northwestern, she taught at the

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's Harris School of Public Policy and served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation postdoctoral scholar at the

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Honors and awards

Schanzenbach is a research associate at the

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and a visiting scholar at the

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. In 2013, she received the annual Raymond Vernon Memorial Prize for the best paper published in the ''

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''.

Personal life

Schanzenbach is married to Max Schanzenbach, a professor at

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. In 2012, they moved to North Shore neighborhood of

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with their three children named Daniel, Peter, and Amy.

References

External links

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at Northwestern School of Education and Social Policy

at Northwestern Institute for Policy Research * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schanzenbach, Diane Miriam Whitmore Living people American women economists 21st-century American economists Northwestern University faculty Princeton University alumni Wellesley College alumni University of Chicago faculty 1972 births 21st-century American women