Kevin Stange is a Professor of Public Policy and Education (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in economics, higher education policy, and quantitative methods. 

He also is co-director of the Education Policy Initiative and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

During the 2022-2023 academic year he was on leave serving as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education.

Professor Stange's research investigates topics in empirical labor and public economics, with a focus on education. He currently is leading projects to better understand how higher education alters students' labor market trajectories, geographic and economic mobility and also how Michigan's financial aid programs impact college access and success.

Before joining the Ford School, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan. He received undergraduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from MIT (1999) and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley (2008). Prior to graduate school, he worked as a policy analyst focused on workforce development at the San Francisco Human Services Agency and as a management consultant.