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Jonathan Guryan is the Lawyer Taylor Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy (SESP). He is a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research and holds courtesy appointments in the Economics Department and the Kellogg School of Business. His academic work focuses on understanding the sources and consequences of racial inequality and the economics of education, with a particular emphasis on interventions to reduce disparities in academic and socioeconomic outcomes. Guryan has conducted influential studies on school desegregation, teacher labor markets, and the impact of early childhood health on educational attainment.
His research has been funded by organizations such as the W.T. Grant Foundation, National Science Foundation, and U.S. Department of Education. Notable contributions include evaluations of summer literacy programs, interventions to reduce school truancy, and analyses of racial wage gaps driven by prejudice. Prior to joining Northwestern in 2010, Guryan served as an economics professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business from 2000 to 2010.
Key areas of expertise include:
- Educational policy and interventions
- Racial inequality and socioeconomic disparities
- Health outcomes and education linkages
- Experimental economics and field experiments
His work frequently employs randomized controlled trials to evaluate program efficacy, with recent studies exploring tutoring scalability, pandemic learning loss recovery, and trauma-informed school interventions. Guryan's affiliations include the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-direction of the Education Lab at the University of Chicago's Urban Labs.
