Hella Bel Hadj Amor, a research scientist at the Institute for Education and Social Policy at New York University, holds a Ph.D. from New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service (January 2005), as well as an MA in Economics from NYU and a BS in Economics from the University of Paris. She specializes in education policy, public finance and applied econometrics. She is an applied economist, and her work has focused on school performance measurement, and on the cost of districts and schools, using large, micro-level panel data sets, in New York City and Ohio. Her current research includes the measurement of school efficiency, high school and college achievement, the effects of school and district size, organization and location on educational costs (the latter is her dissertation work), and an evaluation of a K-3 literacy initiative in several districts across the East Coast. In the past, she has conducted research at the Milano School of the New School University in New York, and for the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, and has interned at the regional Mission of the World Bank in Bangkok, Thailand, and the National Bank of Cambodia. She has or is about to be published in the National Center for Education Statistics Developments in School Finance, in Yearbooks of the American Education Finance Association, in the Economics of Education Review and in books. She is a recipient of the President L. J. Oliva Community Service Award for outstanding service to the NYU community.