EventAndrews Conference Room, 2203 Social Sciences & Humanities
Richard Murnane: U.S High School Graduation Rates – Patterns and Explanations Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Dr. Murnane examines the respects in which the growth in family
income inequality in the U.S. has affected educational
opportunities for children from low income families and the
effectiveness of alternative strategies for improving life
chances for these children. Murnane co-edited (with Greg Duncan)
the 2011 volume, Whither Opportunity: Rising Inequality,
Schools, and Children’s Life Chances (Russell Sage). In
2011, Murnane and his colleague, John Willett, published the book
Methods Matter: Improving Causal Inference in Educational and
Social Science Research (Oxford U. Press).
