Susanna Loeb is an Associate Professor of Education at Stanford University, specializing in the economics of education and the relationship between schools and federal, state, and local policies. She studies resource allocation, looking specifically at how teachers' preferences and teacher preparation policies affect the distribution of teaching quality across schools, and how the structure of state finance systems affects the level and distribution of funds to districts. She also studies poverty policies, including welfare reform and early-childhood education programs. Susanna is an Associate Professor of Business (by courtesy) at Stanford and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.