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Education
- PhD, Education PolicyStanford University
- MPP, Public PolicyUniversity of Michigan
Director
Adaeze Okonkwo
Adaeze founded HERA in 2019 after a decade evaluating state financial-aid reform. She works primarily with linked administrative records, and spends an unreasonable amount of time on the question of what counts as a comparison group.
Research interests
Policy evaluationFinancial aidAdministrative dataState systems
Projects
Selected publications
Aid simplification and enrollment: evidence from four state reformsAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy
What promise programs promiseJournal of Public Economics
Comparison groups in higher-education policy researchEducational Researcher