- 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.
Spring 2009
PA 5022-3 - Economics For Policy Analysis and Planning II
PA 5401 - Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy
PA 8991 - Independent Study
Fall 2008
PA 5021-5 - Economics For Policy Analysis and Planning I
PA 8991-12 - Independent Study
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