
Mingyan Ma is a doctoral student in Educational Policy Studies at Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, Boston University. She is also a research assistant at the Wheelock Educational Policy Center (WEPC). Her research uses quantitative causal inference methods to examine how structural features of K–12 and postsecondary education systems shape access to resources and influence outcomes at the student, teacher, school, and district levels.
She has a B.Mgt. from Nanjing University and an M.A. in economics and education from Columbia University. Prior to starting her Ph.D., she was a senior research assistant at Peking University.
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Email: mdma@bu.edu
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