Melissa S. Kearney
econmsk.bsky.social
Melissa S. Kearney
@econmsk.bsky.social

Economist studying poverty, inequality, families, and policies to improve lives. Professor at Notre Dame Econ (as of summer 2025) and Director at Aspen Economic Strategy Group.

Melissa Schettini Kearney is an American economist who is the Gilbert F. Schaefer Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She is also director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group; a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution; a scholar affiliate and member of the board of the Notre Dame Wilson-Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO); and a scholar affiliate of the MIT Abdul Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). She has been an editorial board member of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy since 2019 and of the Journal of Economic Literature since 2017. Kearney served as director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings from 2013 to 2015 and as co-chair of the JPAL State and Local Innovation Initiative from 2015 to 2018. .. more

Economics 26%
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