Diane Schanzenbach

Diane Schanzenbach
Born	Diane Miriam Whitmore 1972 (age 44–45)
Spouse(s)	Max Schanzenbach
Institution	Northwestern University
Field	Economic policy
Alma mater	Princeton University (Ph.D., 2002)

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (born 1972 as Diane Miriam Whitmore) is an American economist who studies the effects of policies aimed at alleviating child poverty, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). She is currently on leave from her position at Northwestern University as Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at their School of Education and Social Policy. She is also the director of the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and the chair of the Program on Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research, where she is also a faculty fellow.

Schanzenbach received her bachelor's degree in religion and economics magna cum laude from Wellesley College in 1995, and her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2002. Before joining the faculty of Northwestern, she taught at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy and served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

Schanzenbach is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In 2013, she received the annual Raymond Vernon Memorial Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

Schanzenbach is married to Max Schanzenbach, a professor at Northwestern University School of Law. As of 2015, they live in the North Shore neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois with their three children.

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