This work was supported by a grant from the William H. Donner foundation. Eric Hanushek is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Director of the W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy at the University of Rochester. He joined the University of Rochester in 1978 and has previously been Director of the university's Public Policy Analysis Program and Chairman of the Department of Economics. From 1983-85, he was Deputy Director of the Congressional Budget Office.

Dr. Hanushek's research involves applied public finance and public policy analysis with special emphasis on education issues. He has also investigated the determination of individual incomes and wages, housing policy, social experimentation, statistical methodology, and the economics of discrimination. His publications include

• Improving America's Schools
• Modern Political Economy
  
• Making Schools Work
  
• Educational Performance of the Poor
  
• Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions
  
• Statistical Methods for Social Scientists, and
  
• Education and Race,

in addition to numerous articles in professional journals.

Dr. Hanushek was a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1965. Between 1965-74 he served in the U.S. Air Force and in 1968, he completed his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Hanushek had prior academic appointments at the U.S. Air Force Academy (1968-73) and Yale University (1975-78). During 1971-72 he was a Senior Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisors and during 1973-74, he was a Senior Economist at the Cost of Living Council. During 1988-89 he was president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.

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