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Mark Shepard

Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Research interests: Economist. Health care markets, with topics at the intersection of health, industrial organization, and public economics. Competition and policy design in health insurance markets, particularly in public programs like the Massachusetts/ACA health insurance exchanges and Medicaid managed care.

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Marcella Alsan

Professor of Public Policy

Research interests: Economist and MD. Relationship between health and socioeconomic disparities, with an emphasis on infectious disease.

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Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy
Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Research interests: Historian. Racial criminalization in modern U.S. history and origins of the carcereal state. Race and social justice.

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Justin de Benedictis-Kessner

Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Research interests: Political scientist. American politics, with a focus on political behavior, public policy, local politics, elections, and experimental and quantitative methodology.

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Julie Boatright Wilson

Harry Kahn Senior Lecturer in Social Policy

Research interests: Sociologist. Poverty policy, family policy, and child welfare and juvenile justice issues. Adoption from public agencies, child welfare and juvenile justice reform, and community-based strategies for strengthening families' capacities to parent.

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Jennifer S. Lerner

Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor in Public Management
Co-founder, Harvard Decision Science Laboratory

Research interests: A psychologist who draws on insights from psychology, economics, and neuroscience in order to elucidate human judgment and decision making. Predicting effects of specific emotions on specific judgment and choice outcomes. Expanding the evidentiary base for designing public policies that maximize human wellbeing.

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Jeffrey B. Liebman

Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy
Director, Taubman Center for State and Local Government

Research interests: Economist. Public sector economics and social policy. Tax and budget policy, social insurance, poverty, and income inequality.

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Jason Furman

Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy

Research interests: Fiscal policy, tax policy, health economics, Social Security, technology policy, and domestic and international macroeconomics.

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Jane J. Mansbridge

Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Emerita

Research interests: Political scientist. Representation, democratic deliberation, everyday activism, and the public understanding of free-rider problems.

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