Public Policy

Natalie Bau

PhD in Public Policy, 2015.
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, UCLA.

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Naomi Calvo

PhD in Public Policy, 2007.
Director of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment, Bellevue School District, Washington.

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Sarah Cohodes

PhD in Public Policy, 2015.
Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Economics, Teachers College Columbia University.

Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award, Economics of Education, 2016.

Winner of the Jean Flanigan Outstanding Dissertation Award, Association for Education Finance and Policy, 2016.

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David Deming, Associate Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

David J. Deming

PhD in Public Policy, 2010.
Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Winner of the David N Kershaw Early Career Award, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), 2018. The award honors those under the age of 40 who have made a distinguished contribution to the field of public policy analysis and management.

David Deming is one of five new William T. Grant Scholars for 2013-2018. The William T. Grant Scholars Program “supports the professional development of promising early career researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences” with five-year research awards.

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Will S. Dobbie

PhD in Public Policy, 2013.
Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, 2013-2019.

Named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2019-2021.

Co-winner of the W.E. Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award for the best dissertation on employment, 2013.

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Andrew Feldman

PhD in Public Policy, 2007.
Director at Grant Thornton

Andy Feldman's focus is helping public organizations use evidence, data and innovation to strengthen their results, as well as on evidence-based strategies to fight poverty and expand opportunity. He is a director at Grant Thornton Public Sector and also hosts the Gov Innovator podcast.

What Works in Work-First Welfare Andrew Feldman's book, What Works in Work-First Welfare, explores why some employment programs in New York City are more effective than others at helping people get and keep jobs. Upjohn Institute Press, 2011.

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Daniel Honig

PhD in Public Policy, 2015.
Assistant Professor of International Development, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Navigation by Design, by Dan Honig Daniel Honig's first book, Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top-down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn’t Work, examines the optimal level of autonomy in foreign aid intervention delivery and the role political authorizing environments and measurement regimes play in circumscribing that autonomy. Published by Oxford University Press (2018).

Winner of the Next Horizons Essay Contest, 2014. The contest, organized by the Global Development Network in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, invited original and innovative thinking to inform the ongoing discourse on development assistance.

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