Dan Levy

Lecturer in Public Policy
Lecturer in Public Policy
Faculty Chair, MPA Programs,
Degree Programs
Center for International Development
Office Address
Littauer-115
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 51
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-4281
Email: Dan_Levy@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Katie Naeve (617-496-6435)
Dan Levy

Profile

Dan Levy, Lecturer in Public Policy and Faculty Chair of the MPA Programs, teaches courses in quantitative methods and program evaluation. He has served as a Senior Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, where he has been involved in several evaluations of social programs. He is currently directing the evaluation of a school construction program in Burkina Faso. He was recently involved in the evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program in Jamaica, a technical assistance project to Mexicos Social Development Ministry (Sedesol), the evaluation of an after-school program in the United States, and a methodological review of studies comparing the use of random assignment and quasi-experimental methods to estimate program impacts. He is a lab affiliate at the Poverty Action Lab (MIT) and has served as a consultant to several organizations including the World Bank, the IDB, and the Global Development Network (GDN). He received his PhD in economics from Northwestern University, grew up in Venezuela, and is fluent in Spanish and French.

 

Courses

Spring

Fall

  • API-209 Advanced Quantitative Methods I: Statistics

Not Offered

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Research

Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Levy, Dan, and Jim Ohls. "Evaluation of Jamaica's PATH Programme: Final Report." Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. MPR Reference No. 8966-090, March 2007.