Amy Ellen Schwartz

Mission & History

Professor
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration

University of Delaware
Graham Hall
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-4570
aeschwar@udel.edu

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Biography

Amy Ellen Schwartz is professor of public policy at the University of Delaware’s Biden School and professor emeritus at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School and NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service.

Her research spans a broad range of topics in education, urban economics and public policy focusing on the nexus of schools, neighborhoods and public services and children’s academic, social and health outcomes. Current IES-funded work examines the link between transportation, school choice, commuting and student outcomes. Her current NIH-funded study examines the impact of COVID-19 on the health and education of New York City public school children, and the neighborhood/school factors that shaped student success. Continuing projects include research on the impact of public housing on children, the links between height and weight and academic outcomes, and the causes and consequences of absenteeism.

Schwartz is a leading expert on the use of large-scale administrative micro-data sets for policy research, drawing on more than twenty years of collaborative research using detailed micro-data on the education and health of NYC public school children, their housing, schools, neighborhoods, retail establishments and taxation.

She currently serves on the APPAM policy council, the National Advisory Council for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Systems for Action Program, and on editorial boards for various journals, including the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Housing Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Education Finance and Policy.

Professor Schwartz previously served as dean of the University of Delaware’s Biden School, director of NYU’s Institute for Education and Social Policy and editor of Education Finance and Policy.