I am a PhD student in the Department of Government at
Harvard University. I graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Government and Economics in 2005. My primary research
interests are education policy and the economics of education. I conduct empirical research on elementary and secondary
education as a research fellow at the Program on Education Policy and
Governance at Harvard and on higher education as a research associate and project manager at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York. Most recently, I am a co-author (with William
G. Bowen and Michael S. McPherson) of Crossing the Finish Line:
Completing College at America's Public Universities (Princeton University Press, 2009).
Personal
I grew up on the North Fork of
Long Island, NY. I currently reside in Concord, NH with my wife, Abigail Burger Chingos.
For more information on the Chingos (originally Tsingos) family, visit my cousin Peter's
web site.
