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MARIA HANRATTY

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Courses

  • Associate Professor
  • Director, Graduate Studies

Office: 251 Humphrey Center
Phone: 612-625-6500
E-mail: hanra003@umn.edu

Areas of expertise: health care, medical economics, economics of poverty; comparative social welfare institutions

Maria Hanratty, associate professor, teaches courses in social policy and distributive justice. She specializes in health economics, the economics of poverty, and comparative social welfare institutions.

Before joining the Humphrey Institute in the fall of 1998, Hanratty was a senior economist with the Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, D.C., for one year and an assistant professor at Princeton University. She has taught policy analysis and statistics at Columbia University and American poverty and poverty policy, economics of health care, and economic security at Cornell University's New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. From 1984 to 1986 she was a budget analyst with the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare and also has been an analyst for a division of Abt Associates.

Hanratty earned a doctorate in economics from Harvard University and a master of public policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Courses taught for the Humphrey Institute
For syllabi for the current semester, view the University of Minnesota's Course Guide. For syllabi for public affairs classes for Fall 2007 or earlier, view the Humphrey Institute's course syllabi web page.

Syllabi includes current and previous academic years only. Syllabi are available in alternative formats. Please send requests to the Humphrey Institute Student Support Services.

Spring 2008
PA 5401-1 - Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy

Fall 2007
PA 5021-5 - Economics for Policy Analysis & Planning I

Spring 2007
PA 5401-1 - Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy

Fall 2006
PA 5021-5 - Economics for Policy Analysis & Planning I

Go to the University of Minnesota One Stop website to apply for these and other public affairs courses.