Meghan Oster

Alumni

Meghan Oster

Research Scientist, The College Board

Meghan Oster is a research scientist at The College Board where she supports research initiatives across the organization using a variety of internal data sources. She is working on creating AP student profiles to describe how students move through ...

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CIERS seminar leads to on-the-ground financial aid research

Oct 2, 2023

“We have great data in Iowa, and we are always interested in working with graduate students to probe it and see what we can learn.” That was an invitation from Meghan Oster (PhD ‘21), who was already working at Iowa College Aid, the state’s coordinat...

CIERS seminar leads to on-the-ground financial aid research

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Causal Inference program’s first PhD graduates reflect on their training

Aug 20, 2021

The Education Policy Initiative (EPI) Training Program in Causal Inference in Education Policy Research (CIEPR) graduated its first full cohort of PhDs in 2021. First funded in 2015, the focus of the program is to prepare doctoral students to design,...

Causal Inference program’s first PhD graduates reflect on their training

What makes up a policy? A detailed analysis of Ohio's performance-based funding policy

Aug 28, 2018, 8:30-10:00 am EDT

Weill Hall, Room 3240

The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.

Postsecondary preparation & success

HAIL Scholars: Increasing Economic Diversity at a Flagship University

January 2014

Susan Dynarski, Katherine Michelmore, Meghan Oster, Stephanie Owen, Elizabeth Burland, Shwetha Raghuraman

EPI researchers and University of Michigan administrators developed and piloted the HAIL scholarship research program to attract low-income, high-achieving students to consider applying to and enrolling in the university. The project addresses three issues known to affect college application behavior among low-income, high-achieving students: uncertainty about their suitability for an elite school, over-estimates by students and parents of the net cost of college, and procedural barriers such as aid applications. The intervention targets low-income, high-achieving students in Michigan, as well...

University of Michigan's HAIL Scholarship