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Maria
Hanratty
Associate Professor
251 Humphrey School
Currently reviewing Ph.D. applicants
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Social Policy Area
Areas of Expertise
Policy analysis; social welfare policy; child and family policy; labor economics; income inequality and poverty
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    Biography

    Maria Hanratty, associate professor, teaches courses in social policy and distributive justice. She specializes in health economics, the economics of poverty, and comparative social welfare institutions.

    Before joining the Humphrey School in the fall of 1998, Hanratty was a senior economist with the Council of Economic Advisors in Washington, D.C., for one year and an assistant professor at Princeton University. She has taught policy analysis and statistics at Columbia University and American poverty and poverty policy, economics of health care, and economic security at Cornell University's New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. 

    From 1984 to 1986 she was a budget analyst with the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare and also has been an analyst for a division of Abt Associates.

    Education

    PhD in Economics (Harvard University, 1991)

    Master of Public Policy (Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 1984)

    BA (University of Illinois, 1982)