2008 - 2009 Academic Year Fellows

Jonah Deutsch

Jonah is a Senior Researcher at Mathematica. He received his doctoral degree from the Harris School of Public Policy in 2013. He has done research on the statistical properties of measures of school and teacher effectiveness. He also studies the impacts of education and training programs for young adults. Jonah received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University.

Sara Heller

Sara is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan.  She received her doctoral degree from the Harris School of Public Policy in 2013. Her research includes conducting field experiments to isolate the causal effects of a variety of interventions, including cognitive behavioral therapy-based interventions and summer jobs on crime, education, and other life outcomes. Sara received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University. She earned a Masters of Public Policy from Georgetown University and taught middle school students in France before coming to the University of Chicago.

Chloe Hutchinson Gibbs

Chloe Gibbs joined Notre Dame’s economics department in 2015, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities. She previously held an assistant professorship at the University of Virginia’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy with a joint appointment in the Curry School of Education and a research affiliation with UVA’s Center on Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness. Professor Gibbs is interested in measuring the effects, both intended and unintended, of policies and programs targeted at disadvantaged children and families. Professor Gibbs earned her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago’s Harris School. Her dissertation has been recognized with awards from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and the Association for Education Finance and Policy, and her research has been cited by Education Week, TIME, and the President’s Council of Economic Advisors.

Marshall Jean

A native of Louisiana, Dr. Jean has taught in a public high school in France, as well as undergraduate and graduate courses in sociology, data science, and education policy. He is an alumnus of the MAPSS program (2007), the UChicago Sociology PhD program (2016), and was an Institute of Education Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. His research has included studies on the effects of ability grouping and tracking in schools on student learning behaviors, the effects of student mobility on academic outcomes, and racial discrimination in housing appraisals.