Leanna Stiefel is Professor of Economics at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University. During her twenty-seven years at New York University, she also has served as Acting Associate Dean and Director of the Public and Nonprofit program at the Wagner School. Her areas of expertise are school finance and education policy, public and not-for-profit financial management, applied economics and applied statistics. Some of her current and recent research projects include: costs of small high schools in New York City; measurement of efficiency and productivity in public schools; segregation, resource use and achievement of immigrant school children; racial impact of school finance funding; test score gaps among school children; and patterns of resource allocation in large city schools.

Professor Stiefel is the author of Statistical Analysis for Public and Non-Profit Managers (1990) and co-author of The Measurement of Equity in School Finance (1984). In addition, her work appears in journals and edited books. She is past president of the American Education Finance Association, a governor of the New York State Education Finance Research Consortium, and a member of the National Center of Education Statistics Technical Planning Panel (US Department of Education). She has also served on the editorial board of Public Administration Review and, currently, Journal of Education Finance, and has acted as a consultant for organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the Education Commission of the States, the New York ACLU, and the Campaign for Fiscal Equity.

Professor Stiefel teaches courses in microeconomics and multiple regression. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1972), her AB degree with high honors from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1967), and holds an Advanced Professional Certificate in Finance from New York University's Stern School of Business (1984).

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