Directory

Michael is an applied public economist working as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. His research applies theory and econometrics to analyze the welfare implications of government programs, including…

Silvia Robles is passionate about understanding and mitigating social inequality and expanding the knowledge base of programs and policies that improve public well-being. Recently, her research focuses on diversifying access to selective…

Rosen joined MDRC in 2014 and is currently co-director of MDRC’s Center for Effective Career and Technical Education (CTE), which incubates new ideas, synthesizes findings and lessons learned, and disseminates this knowledge to…

Nathaniel Schwartz is a director of applied research and professor of practice at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. In 2020, he co-founded the EdResearch for Recovery initiative, which collects requests for…

Anna Shapiro is an associate policy researcher at RAND with a focus on early childhood education and special education. Her research interests include strengthening early care and education systems, increasing access to high-quality public early…

Andrew Simon is an assistant professor of public policy and economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. He is a public finance economist who studies the incidence of state and local public…

Sabrina Solanki is a research & program director for the Postsecondary Education Research & Implementation Institute at the University of California - Irvine.  She completed her IES Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Ford School of Public Policy at the…

Marissa Thompson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2021 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan before joining the department in 2022. Her…

Dr. Mark Wiederspan is a consultant and a researcher and education advocate focused on college and career pathways, educational policy, financial aid program design, workforce development, economics of education, and the examination of barriers to…

Xiaoyang Ye is an economist at Amazon.  He works on applying behavioral economics and data science to optimize human capital decisions from school to the workplace.  His current academic research focuses on leveraging behavioral interventions, data…

Gloria Yeomans-Maldonado was an IES Postdoctoral Fellow with the Ford School’s Education Policy Initiative from 2018-2020. Her research interests include early childhood, child development, and the contextual factors that accompany these experiences…