Brief Biography
John Yinger
is Trustee Professor of Public Administration and Economics; he also directs
the Education Finance and Accountability Program, which promotes research,
education, and debate about fundamental issues in the elementary and
secondary school system in the U.S. Yinger studies racial and ethnic
discrimination in housing and mortgage markets, as well as state and local
public finance, particularly education. He has published widely in
professional journals. His edited volume, Helping Children Left Behind:
State Aid and the Pursuit of Educational Equity, appeared in 2004 and
another book, The Color of Credit: Mortgage Discrimination, Research
Methodology, and Fair Lending, Enforcement, co-authored with Stephen Ross,
appeared in 2002. His 1995 book, Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost: The
Continuing Costs of Housing Discrimination, won the 1995 Meyers Center Award
for the Study of Human Rights in North America. He served as senior
staff economist in the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and taught
at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. Yinger earned his
Ph.D. from Princeton in 1974.