Bridget Long


Bridget Long

Bio and Research Interest

Bridget Terry Long is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and the Saris Professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  She is an economist whose research focuses on improving educational opportunities and student success with a focus on the transition to higher education and beyond. Her work has provided evidence on financial aid policies, postsecondary remedial education, and college support programs.  She has also developed and evaluated interventions that help students complete financial aid forms, save for college, and persist in higher education.

Dr. Long served as Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 2018 to 2024 and led the school through a major redesign of their master’s program, the COVID pandemic, and the creation of its first online master’s degree. She also substantially increased student financial aid through a successful fundraising initiative, and she expanded HGSE’s external engagement with practitioners, leaders, and communities around the world. She served as Academic Dean from 2013 to 2017 and Faculty Director of the Ed.D. and Ph.D. programs from 2010 to 2013. 

 

Dr. Long is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the  American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Education. She is the Chair of Board of Directors for MDRC, a founding Board Member of Axim Collaborative, and a member of the Board for the Red Sox Foundation. She is also co-Chair of the Commission on Opportunities After High School, sponsored by the American Academy.   She has testified multiple times before Congressional Committees and served as Chair of the National Board for Education Sciences, the advisory panel of the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education.  Long earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from the Harvard University Department of Economics and her A.B. from Princeton University. 

PhD

Harvard University (Economics), 200

Honors and Awards

Dr. Long was awarded the Peter H. Rossi Award from APPAM, the Spencer Foundation Mentor Award, and the Robert P. Huff Golden Quill Award for excellence in research and published works on student financial assistance. She has won numerous research grants, including major awards from the U.S. Department of Education, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.  She was also a recipient of the National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Publications

Avery, Chris, Ben Castleman, Michael Hurwitz, B. Long, and Lindsay Page. (2021) “Digital Messaging to Improve College Enrollment and Success.” Economics of Education Review 84.

Boatman, Angela and B. Long. (2018) “Does Remediation Work for All Students? How the Effects of Postsecondary Remedial and Developmental Courses Vary by Level of Academic Preparation.” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 40(1): 29‐58. 

Bettinger, Eric and B. Long. (2018) “Mass Instruction or Higher Learning? The Impact of Class Size in Higher Education.” Education Finance and Policy 13(1): 97-118. [equal authorship] 

Castleman, Benjamin and B.T. Long. (2016) “Looking Beyond Enrollment: The Causal Effect of Need‐ Based Grants on College Access, Persistence, and Graduation.ʺ Journal of Labor Economics, 34(4), 1023–1073.     

Bettinger, Eric, B. Long, Phil Oreopoulos, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu. (2012) “The Role of Application Assistance and Information in College Decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 127(3). [co-lead authorship]

Bettinger, Eric and B. Long. (2010) “Does Cheaper Mean Better? The Impact of Using Adjunct Instructors on Student Outcomes.” Review of Economics and Statistics 92(3). [equal authorship]

Bound, John, Brad Hershbein, and B. Long. (2009) “Student Reactions to Increasing College Competition.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 23(4). [equal authorship]

Bettinger, Eric and B. Long. (2009) “Addressing the Needs of Under-Prepared College Students: Does College Remediation Work?” Journal of Human Resources 44(3). [equal authorship]

 

Long, B. and Michal Kurlaender. (2009) “Do Community Colleges Provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree?” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 31(1). [lead author]

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