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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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Dani Rodrik

Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy
Co-director, Economics for Inclusive Prosperity (EfIP)


Research interests: Economist. Globalization, economic growth and development, and political economy.

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Economics for Inclusive Prosperity



Desmond Ang

Assistant Professor of Public Policy


Research interests: Applied economics. Intersection of race, education and government. Educational and political ramifications of acts of police violence. Effects of federal election oversight on minority turnout and political polarization.

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Michela Carlana

Assistant Professor of Public Policy


Research interests: Economist. Labor economics, education, gender, and immigration.

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Benjamin Schneer

Assistant Professor of Public Policy


Research interests: Political scientist. American politics. Political representation: how citizens express their preferences, how government responds to them, and what may shape and distort these processes.

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Will S. Dobbie

Professor of Public Policy


Research interests: Economist. Causes and consequences of poverty in the US; racial bias in the criminal justice system; the labor market consequences of bad credit reports; and the long-run effects of charter schools.

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Gordon Hanson

Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy


Research interests:  Impact of immigration and international trade on the U.S. labor market; economic geography;  urbanization.

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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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Sandra Susan Smith

Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Director, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management


Research interests: Sociologist. Urban poverty, racial inequality, and criminal justice. How the front-end of criminal case processing contributes to the reproduction of racial and class inequalities.

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Daniel Schneider

Professor of Public Policy and of Sociology
Co-Director of The Shift Project


Research interests: Sociologist. Social demography, inequality, and the family. The role of economic resources in entry into marriage and cohabitation; the effects of the Great Recession on relationship quality, union dissolution, and fertility; how precarious and unpredictable employment affects family life.

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The Shift Project

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