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Lashawn Richburg-Hayes
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Senior Associate
Young Adults and Postsecondary Education Policy Area
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Richburg-Hayes’ current research focuses on measuring various effects of new forms of financial aid, enhanced student services, and curricular and instructional innovations on community college retention and credit accumulation and nonexperimental methods of data analysis. Richburg-Hayes is the principal researcher and project director of a national demonstration that will test the effectiveness of performance-based scholarship programs to increase retention and persistence in higher education. She is a lead investigator of MDRC’s Opening Doors project, a demonstration designed to help nontraditional students — at-risk youth, low-wage working parents, and unemployed individuals — earn college credentials as the pathway to better jobs with higher pay; Achieving the Dream, a comprehensive initiative being led by Lumina Foundation for Education that targets students of color and low-income students, aiming to boost academic achievement and “close the gap” between these and other community college enrollees; and the Project on Devolution and Urban Change, one of the most ambitious efforts to study urban welfare reform by amassing a database that includes all individuals at risk of welfare receipt in four large cities. Richburg-Hayes earned a B.S. degree from the Industrial and Labor Relations School of Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. in economics in 2000 from Princeton University.
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MDRC Publications
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