Dan Levy

Lecturer in Public Policy
Center for International Development
Faculty Chair, MPA Programs
Degree Programs
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
Alexander Kent (617-496-6435)
Dan Levy

Profile

Dan Levy, Lecturer in Public Policy and Faculty Chair of MPA Programs, teaches courses in quantitative methods and program evaluation. He is currently directing impact evaluations of school construction programs in Burkino Faso and Niger. He was recently involved in the evaluation of conditional cash transfer programs in Jamaica, a technical assistance project to Mexicos Social Development Ministry (Sedesol), the evaluation of an after-school program in the U.S., and a methodological review of studies comparing the use of various methods to estimate program impacts. He has served  as a senior researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, is a lab affiliate at the Poverty Action Lab (MIT), and has served as a consultant to several organizations including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Global Development Network (GDN). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University, grew up in Venezuela, and is fluent in Spanish and French.

 

Courses

Fall

  • API-209 Advanced Quantitative Methods I: Statistics
  • API-201-D Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Methods

Not Offered

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Research

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

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Kremer, Michael, and Dan Levy. "Peer Effects and Alcohol Use among College Students." Journal of Economic Perspectives 22.3 (Summer 2008): 189-206.
  • 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.