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Lashawn Richburg-Hayes
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Deputy Director
Young Adults and Postsecondary Education Policy Area
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Richburg-Hayes is a quantitative methods expert. Her 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 applications of behavioral economics to social policy. Richburg-Hayes is the principal researcher and project director of the national Performance-Based Scholarship Demonstration, which evaluates 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, and of 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. She is also the project director and co-principal investigator of the Behavioral Inventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency project sponsored by the Administration for Families and Children of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 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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