Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (born 1972 as Diane Miriam Whitmore)[1] is an American economist who studies the effects of policies aimed at alleviating child poverty, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
[2][3] Schanzenbach received her bachelor's degree in religion and economics magna cum laude from Wellesley College in 1995, and her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2002.
[4] Before joining the faculty of Northwestern, she taught at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy and served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.
In 2013, she received the annual Raymond Vernon Memorial Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
In 2012, they moved to North Shore neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois with their three children named Daniel, Peter, and Amy.