Melissa Kearney

Melissa Schettini Kearney (born 1974) is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park^[1] and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).^[2] She is also director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group;^[3] a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution; a scholar affiliate and member of the board of the Notre Dame Wilson-Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO);^[4] and a scholar affiliate of the MIT Abdul Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).^[5] She has been an editorial board member of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy since 2019 and of the Journal of Economic Literature since 2017.^[6] Kearney served as director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings from 2013 to 2015^[7] and as co-chair of the JPAL State and Local Innovation Initiative from 2015 to 2018.^[8]