Deans
Susan Mayer
Dean, Harris School of Public Policy
1155 E. 60th St., Rm. 101
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773.702.9623
fax: 773.702.0926
smayer@uchicago.edu
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Susan E. Mayer is dean and an associate professor at the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and at the College at the University of Chicago, and is the past director of the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research. She also serves as a faculty affiliate with the University's Center for Human Potential and Public Policy.
Mayer received her Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University in 1986. She was a research associate at the Institute for Policy Studies at Northwestern University before joining the faculty of the Harris School in 1989.
Mayer is the author of several articles and book chapters on the measurement of poverty, the consequences for poor children of growing up in poor neighborhoods, and the effect of income on children's well-being and the social and political consequences of economic inequality and segregation. She is the author of the book, What Money Can't Buy: Family Income and Children's Life Chances (Harvard University Press) and co-editor with Paul Peterson of the book, Earning and Learning: How Schools Matter (Brookings Institution Press). Mayer's current research is on the effect of economic mobility across generations and the role of non-cognitive skills on social and economic success.
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