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Learn about the dissertations of our PhD in Public Policy graduates and their job placements directly following graduation.

2021-present

Layane alhorr (economics track).

Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics: Evidence On Entrepreneurship, Digitization, and Gender Advisor: Rema Hanna Job Placement: Associate, Cornerstone Research

Marcos Barrozo (economics track)

Dissertation Title: The Economics of Deforestation in the Amazon Advisor: Joseph Aldy Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, DePaul University

Ben Berger (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Health Care and Innovation Advisor: Amitabh Chandra Job Placement: Economist, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Jacob Bradt (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on Energy and Environmental Economics Advisor: Joseph Aldy , Myrto Kalouptsidi Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Business, Government & Society and (by courtesy) of Economics, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin

Tridevi Chakma (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays in Environmental Economics Advisor: Joseph Aldy , Nathaniel Hendren Job Placement: Associate, Cornerstone (London)

Robert French (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays in Urban Economics Advisor: Edward Glaeser Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow (1 year), Harris School of Public Policy and Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago; Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Loyola Marymount University  

VAlentine Gilbert (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays in Urban Economics Advisor: Edward Glaeser Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston

Alice Heath (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on Economics and Social Policy Advisor: Jeffrey Liebman Job Placement: Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Eleanor Krause (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Place Advisor: Joseph Aldy , Gordon Hanson Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Kentucky

J. Mintzmyer (Politics and Institutions track)

Dissertation Title: Assessing Sanctions Motivations via Real-Time Shipping Data Advisor: Stephen Walt Job Placement: U.S. Air Force

Molly Moore (Judgment and Decision Making track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on Reputation and Decision Making Advisor: Julia Minson Job Placement: Lecturer in Economics, Washington University in St. Louis

Kadeem Noray (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on Talent Allocation in the Economy Advisor: David Deming Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Opportunity Insights

Guillermo Palacios (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on Education Economics and Applied Data Science Advisor: Rema Hanna Job Placement: Associate, Analysis Group

Emma Rackstraw (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays at the Intersection of Labor and Crime Economics Advisor: Will Dobbie Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Swarthmore College; Post-Doctoral Fellow (1 year), Social Science Research Council Criminal Justice Innovation, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School 

Melanie Rucinski (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on Teacher Labor Markets Advisor: Christopher Norio Avery Job Placement: Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Avery Schmidt (Politics and Institutions track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Politics of International Law Advisor: Kathryn Sikkink Job Placement: Watson Post-Doctoral Fellow (2024-2025), Brown University; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California (2025)

Emma Smith (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics Advisor: Rema Hanna Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Ke Wang (Judgment and Decision Making track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on Emotion and Decision Making, with Implications for Policy Advisor: Jennifer Lerner Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

jiahua liu (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on International Trade and Firm Growth in Developing Countries Advisor: Gordon Hanson Job Placement: Economist, Cornerstone Research

kristen McCormack (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays in Environmental Economics Advisor: David Cutler Job Placement: Economist, U.S. Treasury

dayea oh (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on Applied Microeconomics Advisor: Will Dobbie Job Placement: Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University

lauren russell (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on the U.S. Criminal Legal System and Black-White Inequality Advisor: David Deming Job Placement: Economist, Labor Markets Section, Federal Reserve Board

Samuel stemper (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Education Advisor:  Christopher Avery Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Auckland

Amy wickett (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on Diversity Advisor:  Desmond Ang Job Placement: to be confirmed

Shweta Bhogale

Dissertation Title: Essays on Agriculture and Rural Development in Developing Countries Advisor:  Rema Hanna Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, King Climate Action Initiative, J-PAL

Kevin Carney

Dissertation Title: Essays in Development and Behavioral Economics Advisor:  Gautam Rao Job Placement:

• Post-Doctoral Fellow (one year), Department of Economics, University of Chicago
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan

Dissertation Title: Two Essays on Legal Entanglements and One Essay on Worker Voice Advisor: Will Dobbie Job Placement: Research Director, People Lab, University of California, Berkeley

Stuart Iler

Dissertation Title: Essays on Shock Propagation in Economic Production Networks: Applications to U.S. Oil Price Episodes and Green Jobs Advisor: Joseph Aldy Job Placement: Consultant, Resources for the Future

frina Lin (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on Health Care and Inequality Advisor: Marcella Alsan Job Placement: to be confirmed

Grace McCormack

Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics Advisor: David Cutler Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Southern California

José Morales-Arilla

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Political Economy of Development Advisor:  Edward Glaeser Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University

Felix Owusu (Economics track)

Dissertation Title: Policy and Inequality in the Criminal Legal System Advisor: David Deming Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

James Reisinger

Dissertation Title: Social Spillovers in Beliefs, Preferences, and Well-being Advisor:  Michela Carlana Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Furman Center, New York University

Elizabeth Spink (economics track)

Dissertation Title: Essays on Water Utility Quality and Access Advisor: Rema Hanna Job Placement: Economist, Environmental Protection Agency

Yazan Al-Karablieh

Dissertation Title: Essays on Corporate Taxation Advisor:  Stefanie Stantcheva Job Placement: Economist, Economist Program, International Monetary Fund

Sebastián Bustos

Dissertation Title: Essays in International Economics, Development, and Globalization Advisor: Ricardo Hausmann Job Placement: Senior Fellow, Growth Lab , Center for International Development , Harvard Kennedy School

Holly Dykstra

Dissertation Title: Essays in Behavioral Economics Advisor:  Brigitte C. Madrian Job Placement: Junior Professor, Department of Economics, University of Konstanz

Marie-Pascale Grimon

Dissertation Title: Essays in Labor Economics and Child Welfare Advisor:  Amanda Pallais Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University

Blake Heller

Dissertation Title: Essays on Late Investment in Human Capital Advisor: Joshua Goodman Job Placement:

• Assistant Professor, Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston
• Post-Doctoral Fellow 2021-2022, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University

Shefali Khanna

Dissertation Title: Essays in Energy and Development Economics Advisor: Rema Hanna Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Economics and Public Policy Department, Imperial College London

Kunal Mangal

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Public Sector Recruitment in India Advisor: Asim Khwaja Job Placement: Visiting Fellow, Azim Premji University

Niharika Singh

Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics Advisor:  Asim Khwaja Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame

Daniel Stuart

Dissertation Title: Essays in Energy and Environmental Economics Advisor: Joseph Aldy Job Placement: Associate, Analysis Group

Andrew Bacher-HicKs

Dissertation Title:  Essays on the Economics of Education Advisor: Christopher Avery Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Education Policy, Boston University

Megan Bailey

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Climate Policy and Innovation Advisor: Joseph Aldy Job Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Calgary

Patrick Behrer

Dissertation Title:  Three Essays in Environmental and Development Economics Advisor: Rema Hanna Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University

Elijah de la Campa

Dissertation Title:  Three Essays on the Provision of Local Public Goods Advisor:  Jeffrey Liebman Job Placement: Senior Research Associate in Economics and Urban Analytics, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative

Charlie Dorison

Dissertation Title:  Essays on Emotion and Decision Making Advisor: Jennifer Lerner Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dispute Resolution Research Center, Management and Operations Department, Northwestern University

Madeleine Gelblum

Dissertation Title:  Essays on Labor and Personnel Economics Advisor: David Deming Job Placement: Labor Market Analyst, Facebook

Guthrie Gray-Lobe

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Development Economics Advisor: Michael Kremer Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Asad Liaqat

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Development Economics and Political Economy Advisor: Asim Khwaja Job Placement: Research Scientist, Novi Economics team, Facebook

Heidi Liu 

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Behavioral Economics, Gender and Employment Advisor: Iris Bohnet Job Placement: Sharswood Fellow, University of Pennsylvania School of Law

Sharan Mamidipudi

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Development Economics and Political Economy Advisor: Gautam Rao Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland

Aroop Mukharji

Dissertation Title:  Sea Change: McKinley, Roosevelt, and the Expansion of U.S. Foreign Policy 1897-1909 Advisor:  Fredrik Logevall  Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Christine Mulhern

Dissertation Title:  Personalized Information and College Choices: The Role of School Counselors, Technology, and Siblings Advisor: Christopher Avery Job Placement: Associate Policy Research, RAND

Dissertation Title: Essays in Energy and Development Economics Advisor: Rohini Pande Job Placement: Applied Scientist, Uber

Rebecca Sachs

Dissertation Title:  Essays on Health Care Markets and the Safety Net Advisor: David Cutler Job Placement: Analyst, Health Studies Unit, Congressional Budget Office

Chris Umphres

Dissertation Title:  Essays on Judgement and Decision Making Advisor: Jennifer Lerner Job Placement: United States Air Force

Bradley DeWees

Dissertation Title:  Essays on Judgment and Decision Making Advisors:  Jennifer Lerner , Julia Minson Job Placement: Assistant Director of Operations, United States Air Force

Abraham Holland

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Development Economics Advisors: Edward Glaeser ,  Rohini Pande Job Placement: Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses

Ariella Kahn-Lang

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Labor Market Inequality Advisors:  Christopher Avery ,  Lawrence Katz Job Placement: Researcher, Human Services, Mathematica

Jennifer Kao

Dissertation Title:  Essays in the Economics of Health and Innovation Advisors:  Pierre Azoulay ,  Amitabh Chandra ,  David Cutler Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Strategy Unit, UCLA Anderson School of Management

Stephanie Majerowicz

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Education and Development Economics Advisors:  Asim Khwaja ,  Michael Kremer Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Government, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, briq Institute on Behavior & Inequality)

Emily Mower

Dissertation Title:  Algorithms and Applied Econometrics in the Digital Economy Advisors: Kris Johnson Ferreira ,  Joshua Goodman , Shane Greenstein Job Placement: Senior Data Scientist, edX

Gabriel Tourek

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Development and Public Economics Advisors:  Nathaniel Hendren ,  Asim Khwaja Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Associate, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

Daniel Velez-Lopez

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Environmental Economics Advisor:  Joseph Aldy Job Placement: Lead Analyst, Venture Fellowship Program, National Grid Partners

Rohit Chandra

Dissertation Title:  Adaptive State Capitalism in the Indian Coal Industry Advisor: José A. Gómez-Ibáñez

Juan Pablo Chauvin

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Urban Economics and Development Advisor:  Edward Glaeser Job Placement: Research Economist, Inter-American Development Bank

Cuicui Chen

Dissertation Title:  Essays on Environmental Economics and Industrial Organization Advisors: Joseph Aldy , Ariél Pakes Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, State University of New York at Albany

Stephen Coussens

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Health and Behavioral Economics Advisors:  David Cutler , Brigitte Madrian Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Raissa Fabregas

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Development Economics and Education Advisors: Michael Kremer , Rohini Pande Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin

Todd Gerarden

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Environmental Economics and Industrial Organization Advisors: Ariél Pakes ,  Robert Stavins Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

Sarika Gupta

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Development Economics and Governance Advisor:  Rohini Pande Job Placement: Young Professionals Program, The World Bank

Alicia Harley

Dissertation Title:  Why Does Technology Fail to Benefit the Poorest Farmers? A Sociotechnical Approach to the Study of Innovation and Poverty Advisor: William Clark Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School

Janhavi Nilekani

Dissertation Title:  Essays at the Intersection of Environmental and Development Economics Advisors: Rema Hanna ,  Rohini Pande Job Placement: Founder, Aastar

Dissertation Title:  Essays on Structural Transformation and Trade Advisors:  Melissa Dell ,  Martin Rotemberg Job Placement: Harvard Graduate Students Union, United Auto Workers

Martin Abel

Dissertation Title:  Essays on Labor Markets in Developing Countries Advisors: Rema Hanna , Lawrence Katz Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Middlebury College

Jonathan Baker

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Water Conservation and Water Quality Programs Advisor: Robert Stavins Job Placement: Economist, Analysis Group

Tomoko Harigaya

Dissertation Title:  Delivering Financial Services to the Poor: Constraints on Access, Take-up, and Usage Advisor:  Rohini Pande Job Placement: Research Associate, Precision Agriculture for Development

Laura Quinby

Dissertation Title:  Compensation and Employment Policies in the U.S. Public Sector Advisor:  Lawrence Katz Job Placement: Research Economist, Center for Retirement Research, Boston College

Dissertation Title:  State Strategies Under Global Rules: Chinese Industrial Policy in the WTO Era Advisor: Peter A. Hall Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon

Samura Atallah

Dissertation Title:  Studies in Labor Economics, Organizational Economics, and Development Advisor: Ellen J. Langer Job Placement: Associate, McKinsey & Company

Tara Grillos

Dissertation Title:  Participation, Power, and Preferences in International Development Advisor:  William Clark Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Purdue University

Nils Hägerdal

Dissertation Title:  Ethnic Cleansing as Military Strategy: Lessons From Lebanon, 1975-1990 Advisor: Robert H. Bates Job Placement: Junior Research Fellow, Brandeis University

Elizabeth Linos

Dissertation Title:  Three Essays on Human Capital in the Public Sector Advisor:  Jeffrey Liebman Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Optimizing Social Policy for Different Populations: Education, Targeting, and Impact Evaluation Advisor:  Lant Pritchett Job Placement: Founder and CEO, StellarEmploy

Yusuf Neggers

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Economic Development and Political Economy Advisor:  Rohini Pande Job Placement: Watson Post-Doctoral Fellow, Brown University

Oyebola Okunogbe

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Political Economy and Development Advisor:  Asim Khwaja Job Placement: Economist, Development Research Group, The World Bank

Trisha Shrum

Dissertation Title:  Behavioral and Experimental Insights on Consumer Decisions and the Environment Advisors: Joseph Aldy ,  David Laibson Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Earth Lab, University of Colorado

Samuel Stolper

Dissertation Title:  Oil and Water: Essays on the Economics of Natural Resource Usage Advisors:  Joseph Aldy , Robert Stavins Job Placement:

• Fall 2016 > Post-Doctoral Fellow, Energy Initiative, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Fall 2017 > Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan 

Maria Cecilia Acevedo

Dissertation Title:  Essays in the Political Economy of Conflict and Development Advisors: Rohini Pande , James Robinson Job Placement: Consultant, Poverty Global Practice Division, The World Bank

Natalie Bau

Dissertation Title:  Essays at the Intersection of Development and Education Advisors:  Asim Khwaja ,  Nathan Nunn Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto

Syon Bhanot

Dissertation Title:  Field Experiments in Behavioral and Public Economics Advisors:  Brigitte Madrian ,  Richard Zeckhauser Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Swarthmore College

Gabriel Chan

Dissertation Title:  Essays on Energy Technology Innovation Policy Advisors:  William Clark ,  Laura Díaz Anadón Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Science, Technology and Policy, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Sarah Cohodes

Dissertation Title:  Essays on the Economics of Education Advisor:  Christopher Avery Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis, Teachers College, Columbia University

A. Nilesh Fernando

Dissertation Title:  Land, Labor and Technology: Essays in Development Economics Advisors:  Lawrence Katz ,  Asim Khwaja Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame (Post-Doc at Harvard University)

Daniel Honig

Dissertation Title:  Navigating by Judgment: Organizational Structure, Autonomy, and Country Context in Delivering Foreign Aid Advisor:  Peter A. Hall Job Placement: Assistant Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Mahnaz Islam

Dissertation Title:  Essays on Development Economics Advisors: Rema Hanna , Rohini Pande Job Placement: Economist, Amazon

joo Julia A. lee

Dissertation Title: Essays in Organizational Behavior Advisor:  Francesca Gino Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institutional Corruption Program, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University

Andry Liscovich

Dissertation Title: Essays in Experimental and Labor Economics Advisor:  Nicholas A. Christakis Job Placement: Director of Technology, RA Capital Management

Richard Sweeney

Dissertation Title:  Essays on Industry Response to Energy and Environmental Policy Advisors: Ariél Pakes ,  Robert Stavins Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boston College

Elizabeth Walker

Dissertation Title:  Essays at the Intersection of Environment and Development Economics Advisor:  Rema Hanna Job Placement: Consultant, Energy, Environment, and Network Industries Practice, NERA Economic Consulting

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Transmission and Diffusion of Productive Knowledge in International Economics Advisor:  Elhanan Helpman Job Placement: Senior Associate Economist, Inter-American Development Bank

Ariel Dora Stern

Dissertation Title: Essays in the Economics of Health Care and the Regulation of Medical Technology Advisor:  Amitabh Chandra Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Technology and Operations Management Unit, Harvard Business School

Alexandra van Geen

Dissertation Title: Essays in Experimental Economics and the Improvement of Judgment and Decision Making Advisor: Iris Bohnet Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, Erasmus School of Economics

Clara Monika Zverina

Dissertation Title: Essays in Public and Labor Economics Advisor: Jeffrey Liebman Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow in Disability Research, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Will Dobbie

Dissertation Title: Essays in Labor Economics Advisor: Roland G. Fryer, Jr. Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Department of Economics, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Jeffrey Friedman

Dissertation Title: Cumulative Dynamics and Strategic Assessment: U.S. Military Decision Making in Iraq, Vietnam, and the American Indian Wars Advisor: Stephen Walt Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow in International Security and U.S. Foreign Policy, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College

Marie E. Newhouse

Dissertation Title: Kant's Typo, and the Limits of Law Advisor: Arthur Applbaum Job Placement: Residential Lab Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard Law School

Olga Rostapshova

Dissertation Title: Pushing a Troika of Development: Promoting Investment, Curbing Corruption, and Enhancing Public Good Provision Advisor: Richard Zeckhauser Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Specialist, Social Impact, Social Science Genetics Association Consortium, National Bureau of  Economic Research (NBER) and Senior Evaluations

Laurence Tai

Dissertation Title: Hierarchical Game-Theoretic Models of Transparency in the Administrative State Advisor: Daniel Carpenter   Job Placement: Residential Lab Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard Law School

Christopher Carrigan

Dissertation Title: Structured to Fail? Explaining Regulatory Performance Under Completing Mandates Advisor:  Daniel Carpenter Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University

Souman Hong

Dissertation Title: Online Institutions, Markets, and Democracy Advisor: Matthew Baum Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Yonsei University

Avinash Kishore

Dissertation Title: Essays on Economics of Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution in India Advisor: Dale Jorgenson Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), New Delhi, India

Robyn Meeks

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Household Water Access in Developing Countries Advisor: Rohini Pande Job Placement: Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan 

Karl Neumar

Dissertation Title: Essays on Optimal Management of Portfolios Advisor:  Richard Zeckhauser Job Placement:, Founding Partner, HNC Advisors

Philip Osafo-Kwaako

Dissertation Title: Essays in Economic History and Development Advisor: James Robinson Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard

Matthew Ransom

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Climate Change Advisor:  Richard Zeckhauser Job Placement: Senior Analyst, Health and Environment Division, Abt Associates

Christopher Robert

Dissertation Title: Wealth, Welfare, and Well-being: Essays in Indebtedness and Normative Analysis Advisor:  Richard Zeckhauser Job Placement: President and CEO, Dobility; Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School

William Skimmyhorn

Dissertation Title: Essays in Behavioral Household Finance Advisor:  Brigitte Madrian Job Placement: Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy (West Point)

Maoliang Ye

Dissertation Title: Gradualism in Coordination and Trust Building Advisors: Raj Chetty ,  Brigitte Madrian Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Remin University of China

Tristan Zajonc

Dissertation Title: Essays on Causal Inference for Public Policy Advisor: Guido Imbens Job Placement: Visiting Fellow, Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard; Co-founder and CEO, Sense, Inc.

Ina Ganguli

Dissertation Title: Labor Markets in Transition: Science and Migration After the Collapse of the Soviet Union Advisor: Richard B. Freeman Job Placement:

• 2011–2012 > Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Business School, Harvard Medical School
• 2012 > Assistant Professor, Stockholm School of Economics

John Horton

Dissertation Title: Online Labor Markets Advisor:  Richard Zeckhauser Job Placement: Economist, Odesk

Victoria Levin

Dissertation Title: Choices and Consequences: Decisions on Health, Wealth, and Employment Advisor:  Brigitte Madrian Job Placement: Economist, The World Bank

Suerie Moon

Dissertation Title: Embedding Neoliberalism: Global Health and the Evolution of the Global Intellectual Property Regime (1995-2009) Advisor: John Ruggie Job Placement: Non-academic offers—undecided

Gary Reinbold

Dissertation Title: Essays on Child Mortality and Growth Faltering in Bangladesh and Kenya Advisor: Mary Jo Bane Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, University of Illinois Springfield

Abigail Fisher Williamson

Dissertation Title: Beyond the Passage of Time: Local Government Response in New Immigrant Destinations Advisor: Robert D. Putnam Job Placement: Preceptor, Harvard College Writing Program

Andrés Zahler

Dissertation Title: Essays on Export Dynamics Advisor: Ricardo Hausmann Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Public Policy Institute, Diego Portales University

Mohamad Al-Ississ

Dissertation Title: The Role of Beliefs in Financial Markets: Three Essays on Violence, Trust and Religion Advisor: Iris Bohnet Job Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Cairo, Joint appointment with Business School and School of Global Affairs

Sharon Barnhardt

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Impact of Residential Location on Networks, Attitudes and Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from India Advisor:  Rohini Pande Job Placement: Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai, India

David Deming

Dissertation Title: Long-Term Impacts of Educational Interventions Advisor: Lawrence Katz Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Heinz School of Public Health, Carnegie Mellon University

Brooke Kelsey Jack

Dissertation Title: Essays on Developing Country Markets in Environment and Health Advisor: Christopher Avery Job Placement:

• 2010–2011 > Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2011 > Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Tufts University

David J. Lynch

Dissertation Title: Does Analogical Reasoning Affect Political Attitudes? Evidence from Survey Experiments Advisor: Gary King Job Placement: Consultant, RWS Advisory

Santitarn Sathirathai

Dissertation Title: Loyal Friends and Fickle Lenders: The Behavior of Financial Institutions During Financial Crises Advisor: Asim Khwaja Job Placement: Credit Suisse, Singapore

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Education Advisor:  Lawrence Katz Job Placement: Institute of Education Sciences, (National Center for Education Evaluation), U.S. Department of Education

Hunt Allcott

Dissertation Title: Consumer Behavior and Firm Strategy in Energy Markets Advisor: Robert Stavins Job Placement:

• 2009–2011 > Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2011 > Assistant Professor of Economics, New York University

Jeffrey Bielicki

Dissertation Title: Integrated Systems Analysis and Technological Findings for Carbon Capture and Storage Deployment Advisor: John Holdren Job Placement: Weinberg Fellow, Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jonathan Borck

Dissertation Title: Beyond Compliance: Three Essays on Voluntary Corporate Environmentalism Advisor:  Richard Zeckhauser Job Placement: Economist, Analysis Group, Boston

Warigia Bowman

Dissertation Title: Digital Development: Technology, Governance, and the Quest for Modernity in East Africa Advisor: Sheila Jasanoff Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy Leadership, University of Mississippi

Jennifer Bulkeley

Dissertation Title: Perspectives on Power: Chinese Strategies to Measure and Manage China’s Rise Advisor: Ashton Carter Job Placement: Special Assistant for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Oeindrila Dube

Dissertation Title: Essays in the Political Economy of Conflict and Development Advisor:  Sendhil Mullainathan Job Placement: 2009–2010 > Post-Doctoral Fellow, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Center for Global Development, New York University

Allan Friedman

Dissertation Title: Privacy, Security, and the Dynamics of Networked Information Sharing Advisor: David Lazer Job Placement:

• 2009–2010 > Post-Doctoral Fellowship, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard University
• 2010 > Brookings Institution

Felipe Kast

Dissertation Title: Essays on Poverty Dynamics and Social Policy Advisor: Alberto Abadie Job Placement: Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Dissertation Title: Green Chemistry: A Study of Innovation for Sustainable Development Advisor: William Clark Job Placement: Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, Yale University

Holly Ho Ming

Dissertation Title: Growing Up in the Urban Shadow: Realities and Dreams of Migrant Workers’ Children in Beijing and Shanghai Advisor: Anthony Saich Job Placement: Breakthrough, Ltd, Hong Kong, Youth Foundation, Beijing and Shanghai

Tatsuya Nishida

Dissertation Title: Incomplete Alliances: A Comparative Analysis of the Hub-and Spoke System in the Asia-Pacific Advisor: Stephen Walt Job Placement: Post-Doc at a Japanese university

Jason Richwine

Dissertation Title: IQ and Immigration Policy Advisor: George Borjas Job Placement: Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

Juan Saavedra

Dissertation Title: The Role of Resources and Incentives in Education Production Advisor:  Lawrence Katz Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Public Policy, School of Government, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Judith Scott-Clayton

Dissertation Title: Understanding America's Unfinished Transformation: Three Essays on the Economics of Higher Education Advisor: Christopher Jencks Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

Sandra Sequeira

Dissertation Title: On the Waterfront: An Empirical Study of Corruption in Ports Advisor:  Sendhil Mullainathan Job Placement:

• 2009 > Post-Doctoral Fellow, New York Law School
• 2010 > Lecturer in Development Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science

Yuhki Tajima

Dissertation Title: Order and Violence in Authoritarian Breakdowns: How Institutions Explain Communal Violence in Indonesia Advisor: Robert H. Bates Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside

Ngoc Anh Tran

Dissertation Title: Corruption, Ranking and Competition Advisor:  Richard Zeckhauser Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Indiana

Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Environmental Economics Advisor: Robert Stavins Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College

Fotini Christia

Dissertation Title: The Closest of Enemies: Alliance Formation in the Afghan and Bosnian Civil Wars Advisor: Robert H. Bates   Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kessely Corea Hong

Dissertation Title: Group Differences in Preferences, Beliefs, and Perceptions? Advisor: Iris Bohnet On family leave

Sebastian S. James

Dissertation Title: Essays on Tax Policy and Tax Compliance Advisor: Caroline M. Hoxby Job Placement: Senior Economist on Tax Policy, The World Bank

Bailey W. Klinger

Dissertation Title: Discovering New Export Activities in Developing Countries: Uncertainty, Linkages, and the Product Space Advisor: Ricardo Hausmann Job Placement: Director, Center for International Development (CID) Research Lab, Harvard Kennedy School

Carolyn M. Kousky

Dissertation Title: Responding to Risk: Information and Decision Making in the Floodplains of St. Louis County, Missouri Advisor:  Richard Zeckhauser Job Placement: Fellow, Resources for the Future

Elta C. Smith

Dissertation Title: Governing Rice: The Politics of Experimentation in Global Agriculture Advisor: Sheila Jasanoff Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Environment and Political Economy, University of California, Berkeley

Nicole A. Szlezak

Dissertation Title: Global Health in the Making: China, HIV/AIDS and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Advisor:  Sheila Jasanoff Job Placement: Consultant, McKinsey & Company

Adam T. Thomas

Dissertation Title: Forgotten Fathers: A Collection of Essays on Low-Skilled Men and Marriage Advisor: William Julius Wilson Job Placement: Research Director, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution

Dissertation Title: Nonparametric Methods for Inference After Variable Selection, Comparisons of Survival Distributions, and Random Effects Meta-Analysis, and Reporting of Subgroup Analyses (Department of Biostatistics) Advisor: Stephen Lagakos Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles

Blair s. Williams

Dissertation Title: Essays in Legislative Behavior Advisor: David King Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy (West Point)

Naomi Calvo

Dissertation Title: How Parents Choose Schools: A Mixed-Methods Study of Public School Choice in Seattle Advisor: Christopher Jencks Job Placement: Principal Associate, Education Resource Strategies

Dissertation Title: Essays on Environmental Tax Policy Analysis: Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Approaches Applied to China Advisor: Dale Jorgenson Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

Andrew Feldman

Dissertation Title: What Works in Work-First Welfare? Advisor: Jeffrey Liebman Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School

Fiona Greig

Dissertation Title: Barriers to Advancement: Perspectives from Behavioral Economics, Negotiation and Gender Analysis Advisor: Iris Bohnet Job Placement: Consultant, McKinsey & Company

Dissertation Title: Essays on Education Production in China and the U.S. Advisor: Anthony Saich Job Placement: Policy Specialist, Human Development Report Office, UN Development Programme

Beau Kilmer

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Consequences of Drug Use and Drug Testing Advisor: Mark Moore Job Placement: Associate Policy Researcher, RAND

Indhira Santos

Dissertation Title: Essays on Natural Disasters and Household Income Advisor:  Jeffrey Liebman Job Placement: Research Fellow, Bruegel

Dissertation Title: Essays on Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resource Economics Advisor: William Hogan Job Placement: Assistant Professor in Energy Economics and Policy, Department of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering, Penn State University

Pelin Berkmen

Dissertation Title: Essays on Monetary Policy and Debt Accumulation Advisor: Andrés Velasco Job Placement: Research Economist, International Monetary Fund

Eduardo Cavallo

Dissertation Title: Living as a Debtor in a World of Sudden Stops: The Roles of Exposure to Trade and Commitment Advisor: Jeffrey Frankel Job Placement: Research Economist, Inter-American Development Bank

Dissertation Title: Household Behavior and Energy Demand: Evidence from Peru Advisor: Mark Rosenzweig Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

Dissertation Title: The Economic Interdependence of China and the World Advisor: Robert Lawrence Job Placement: Private Sector Consultant

Jenny Schuetz

Dissertation Title: Land, Money and Politics: Essays on Government Intervention in Housing Markets Advisor:  José A. Gómez-Ibáñez Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University

Jong-Sung You

Dissertation Title: A Comparative Study of Income Inequality, Corruption, and Social Trust Advisor: Robert D. Putnam Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego

Chad b. steinberg

Dissertation Title: Does the Neighborhood Matter? Three Essays in International Economics Advisor: Dani Rodrik Job Placement: Economist, International Monetary Fund

Khuong Minh Vu

Dissertation Title: ICT and Global Economic Growth: Contribution, Impact, and Policy Implications Advisor: Dale Jorgenson Job Placement: Visiting Professor, Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University

Steven c. Anderson

Dissertation Title: Analyzing Strategic Interaction in Multi-Settlement Electricity Markets: A Closed-Loop Supply Function Equilibrium Model Advisor: William Hogan Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Electricity Policy Group

Dissertation Title: Essays in Environmental Economics and Policy Advisor: Robert Stavins Job Placement: Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Dallas

Andrew k. Leigh

Dissertation Title: Essays in Poverty and Inequality Advisor: Christopher Jencks Job Placement: Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

Gavin Samms

Dissertation Title: Essay in Education Policy Advisor:  Christopher Jencks Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Sheryl Winston Smith

Dissertation Title: Innovation and Globalization in Four High-Technology Industries in the United States: One Size Does Not Fit All Advisor: Lewis Branscomb Job Placement: Research Associate in Economics and Management, Gustavus Adolphus College

Lori d. Snyder

Dissertation Title: Essays on Facility-Level Response to Environmental Regulations Advisor:  Robert Stavins Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, Nicholas School of Environmental and Earth Sciences, Duke University

Carolyn Gideon

Dissertation Title: Sustainable Competition or Inevitable Monopoly? The Potential for Competition in Network Communications Industries Advisor:  Lewis Branscomb Job Placement: Assistant Professor of International Communications and Communications Technology, Tufts University

Gabriel Kaplan

Dissertation Title: Between Politics and Markets: The Institutional Allocation of Resources in Higher Education Advisor: Joseph Kalt Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver

Tuan Minh Le

Dissertation Title: Analysis of Tax and Trade Incentives for Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Vietnam Advisor: Dwight H. Perkins Job Placement: Public Finance Economist, The World Bank

Pierre LeBlanc

Dissertation Title: Essays on Tax-Deferred Saving in Canada Advisor: David Wise Job Placement: Economist, Department of Finance, Government of Canada

Dorina Bekoe

Dissertation Title: After the Peace Agreement: Lessons for Implementation from Mozambique, Angola, and Liberia Advisor: Robert H. Bates Job Placement: Associate, International Peace Academy

Sheila Cavanagh

Dissertation Title: Essays in Environmental Economics and Policy Advisor: Robert Stavins Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University

Ajay Chaudry

Dissertation Title: Child Care Arrangements Among Low-Income Families: A Qualitative Approach Advisor: Mary Jo Bane Job Placement: Faculty Member, The New School

Dissertation Title: Money and Mission: How Non-Profit Organizations Finance Their Charitable Activities Advisor: Richard Zeckhauser Job Placement: Public Finance Associate, UBS Paine Webber 

R. Karl Rethemeyer

Dissertation Title: Centralization or Democratization: Assessing the Internet's Impact on Policy Networks Advisor: Jane Fountain Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Policy, Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Policy, State University of New York at Albany

Lisa Sanbonmatsu

Dissertation Title: Child Neglect in a Changing Economic and Social Policy Context Advisor:  Mary Jo Bane Job Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research

Andres Vinelli

Dissertation Title: The Management and Performance of Microfinance Organizations Advisor: Mark Moore Job Placement: Special Assistant to the Chairman, National Association of Securities Dealers

Alix Peterson Zwane

Dissertation Title: Essays in Environment and Development Advisor:  Robert Stavins Job Placement: Cooperative Extension Specialist, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Dissertation Title: Integrating Information and Decision Making in a Multi-Level World: Cross-scale Environmental Science and Management Advisor: William Clark Job Placement: Research Associate, Sustainability Systems Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

RicHARD Doblin

Dissertation Title: Regulation of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and Marijuana Advisor: F.M. Scherer Job Placement: President, Multi-Disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

Judith Kelley

Dissertation Title: Norms and Membership Conditionality: The Role of European Institutions in Ethnic Politics in Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia and Romania Advisor: Lisa Martin Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Duke University

Anthony Patt

Dissertation Title: Strategy and Psychology in Environmental Assessment Advisor: William Clark Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University

Sasha Pivovarsky

Dissertation Title: Essays on Institutions and Finance Advisor: Benjamin Sachs Job Placement: Economist, International Monetary Fund

David Skilling

Dissertation Title: Policy Coordination, Political Structure, and Public Debt: The Political Economy of Public Debt Accumulation in OECD Countries Since 1960 Advisor:  Richard Zeckhauser Job Placement: Economist, New Zealand Treasury

Marcus Stanley

Dissertation Title: Essays in Program Evaluation Advisor: Claudia Goldin Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve University

Robert Taliercio

Dissertation Title: Administrative Reform as Credible Commitment: The Design, Sustainability, and Performance of Semi-Autonomous Revenue Authorities in Latin America Advisor: Merilee Grindle Job Placement: Fellow, Young Professionals Program, The World Bank

Todd Olmstead

Dissertation Title: The Effects of Freeway Management Systems and Motorist Assistance Patrols on the Frequency of Reported Motor Vehicle Crashes Advisor:  José A. Gómez-Ibáñez Job Placement: Consultant, McKinsey & Company

Gustavo Merino-Juarez

Dissertation Title: Federalism and the Policy Process: Using Basic Education as a Test-Case of Decentralization in Mexico Advisor: John Donahue Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Carlos Rufin

Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Institutional Change in the Electricity Supply Industry Advisor: William Hogan Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Business Strategy, Babson College

Howard Shatz

Dissertation Title: The Location of U.S. Multinational Affiliates Advisor:  Benjamin Sachs Job Placement: Research Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California

David Snelbecker

Dissertation Title: Pension Reform in Economies with Large Informal Sectors: The Case of the Ukraine Advisor: William Hogan Job Placement: Manager, The Services Group

David Autor

Dissertation Title: Essays on the Changing Labor Market: Computerization, Inequality, and the Development of the Contingent Work Force Advisor: Lawrence Katz Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alison Earle

Dissertation Title: Keeping the Job You Find: Understanding Job Turnover Among Welfare Recipients Who Obtain Work Advisor: David Ellwood Job Placement: Research Scientist, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health

Karen Eggleston

Dissertation Title: Incentives in Health Care Payment Systems Advisor: Joseph P. Newhouse Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University

Karen Fisher-Vanden

Dissertation Title: Structural Change and Technological Diffusion in Transition Economies: Implications for Energy Use and Carbon Emissions in China Advisor: Dale Jorgenson Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College

WooChan Kim

Dissertation Title: Essays in International Capital Markets Advisor: Wei Job Placement: Deputy Director, Ministry of Finance and Economy, Republic of Korea

Chang-Yang Lee

Dissertation Title: A Theory of the Determinants of R&D: Consumer Characteristics and Technological Competence Advisor: F.M. Scherer Job Placement: Director, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, Republic of Korea

Steven Todd Schatzki

Dissertation Title: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of Land Use Change Under Uncertainty Advisor: Robert Stavins Job Placement: Senior Analyst, National Economic Research Associates

Stuart Orin Shapiro

Dissertation Title: Speed Bumps and Road Blocks: Procedural Controls and Regulatory Change Advisor: Cary Coglianese Job Placement: Policy Analyst, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Tay Keong Tan

Dissertation Title: Silence, Sacrifice, and Shoofly Pies: An Inquiry into the Social Capital and Organizational Structures of the Amish Community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Advisor:  Katherine S. Newman Job Placement: Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

Kathryn p. Boudett

Dissertation Title: In Search of a Second Chance: The Consequences of GED Certification, Education and Training for Young Women Without Traditional High School Diplomas Advisor: Thomas Kane Job Placement: Research Fellow, Harvard Project on Schooling and Children

Bryan c. Hassel

Dissertation Title: Designed to Fail? Charter School Programs and the Politics of Structural Choice Advisor: Paul E. Peterson Job Placement: Consultant, Private Company

Christopher e. Herbert

Dissertation Title: Limited Choices: The Effect of Residential Segregation on Homeownership Among Blacks Advisor: Kain Job Placement: Senior Analyst, Abt Associates

Jason c. Snipes

Dissertation Title: Skill Mismatch, Turnover, and the Development of Young Workers’ Careers Advisor: Ronald Ferguson Job Placement: Research Associate, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation

John d. Chapman

Dissertation Title: Biased Enrollment and Risk Adjustment for Health Plans Advisor: Joseph P. Newhouse Job Placement: Vice President, Health Care Information Systems

Ingrid gould Ellen

Dissertation Title: Sharing America's Neighborhoods: The Changing Prospects for Stable, Racial Integration Advisor:  Richard Zeckhauser Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University

Tae Yun Kim

Dissertation Title: An Analysis of Defense Procurement Policy in Korea: Selection, Cost Accounting, and Profit Policies Advisor:  F.M. Scherer Job Placement: Government Official, Republic of Korea

Dara e. Menashi

Dissertation Title: Making Public/Private Collaboration Productive: Lessons for Creating Social Capital Advisor:  Ronald Ferguson Job Placement: Consultant, Private Company

Richard g. Newell, Jr.

Dissertation Title: Environmental Policy and Technological Change: The Effect of Economic Incentives and Direct Regulation on Energy-Saving Innovation Advisor:  Robert Stavins Job Placement: Fellow, Resources for the Future

Vicki Norberg-Bohm

Dissertation Title: Technological Change for Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Mexican Electric Power Sector Advisor: William Clark Job Placement: Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Michael a. Santoro

Dissertation Title: Trade Investment and Human Rights: A Moral Framework for Foreign Relations with China Advisor: Frederick Schauer Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University

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Dissertations.

Our students' dissertation titles are recorded below. Full-text versions of all the dissertations are available via the University's Deep Blue service .

Public Policy & Economics

Student Name	Dissertation Title
Abarcar, Paolo	Essays on the Economics of International Migration and Return.
Beam, Emily	Information and Labor Markets in the Philippines.
Broussard, Nzinga Harriet	Essays in Labor and Development Economics.
Crow, Mark	Economic and Social Determinants of Military Labor Supply: Essays on the Effects of Local Labor Market Conditions and the Opioid Crisis and Service in the U.S. Army.
Ferrero, Chiara	Essays in Public Finance and Political Economy.
Fitzpatrick, Anne	Three Essays in Health and Development.
Garlick, Robert	Essays in Development Economics and Econometrics.
Godlonton, Susan	Three Essays on Job Trainee and Employee Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Malawi.
Goldberg, Jessica Ann	Experimental Evidence about Earning, Saving, and Borrowing Money in Rural Malawi.
Goldstein, Daniel Aaron	Three Essays on the Objective Function in Economics.
Hernández, Mónica	The Role of Out of School Factors on Student Performance and Educational Attainment.
Hyman, Joshua	Three Essays on the Economics of Education.
Johnson, Erik Paul	Three Essays in Environmental Economics and Applied Econometrics.
Lim, Katie	Three Essays on Female Self-Employment.
Mahajan, Parag	Essays on Labor Mobility.
Matsudaira, Jordan D	Three Essays in Education and Labor Economics.
McLaren, Zoe	Essays on Labor Market Outcomes in South Africa.
Montgomery, Nicholas	Essays on Public Finance and Time Use.
Murphy, Daniel	Modeling Demand in International and Macro Economics.
Nunn, Ryan Douglas	Three Essays on Estimation with Unpriced Amenities.
Owen, Stephanie	Essays in the Economics of Education.
Pounder, Laurie	Life-cycle Consumption Examined.
Ratner, David Diamond	Three Essays on the U.S. Labor Market: Macroeconomic Trends and Cycles.
Resch, Alexandra Margaret	Three Essays on Resources in Education.
Streich, Francie	Online Education in Community Colleges: Access, School Success, and Labor-Market Outcomes.
Theoharides, Caroline	Three Essays on the Economics of International Migration.
Thompson, Hope	The Expansion of Renewable Energy Technologies and Their Impact on Household Energy Portfolios and Sustainable Development: A Study Of Nepal.
Toohey, Desmond	Three Essays in the Economics of Unemployment and Aging.
Tulayasathien, Soraphol	Essays on International Taxation.
Walsh, F.G. Elias	Three Essays on the Economics of Education and Labor Economics.

Public Policy & Political Science

Student Name	Dissertation Title
Barnes, Carolyn	Political Learning Revisited: How Nonprofit Service Provision Shapes Political Participation Among the Poor.
Beatty, Alison	Cross-National Policy Diffusion in States and Provinces.
Benstead, Lindsay Joy	Does Casework Build Support for a Strong Parliament? Legislative Representation and Public Opinion in Morocco and Algeria.
Bray, Janna	The Local Politics of Muslim Immigration.
Brown, Ashley Reid	Coffee Shop Conversations: An Exploration of How Local Elected Officials Develop and Engage Their Social Networks.
Demessie, Menna Aklilu	Navigating the Boundaries of Blackness: Congressional Caucuses U.S. Foreign Policy and African Affairs.
Ellis, Cali	Trust and Communication in Cross-Border Counterterrorism Networks.
Gause, LaGina	The Advantage of Disadvantage; Legislative Responsiveness to Collective Action by the Politically Marginalized.
Gong, Abe W.	What Theories of Political Participation Can Teach Us about the Blogosphere, and Vice Versa.
Helfstein, Scott Adam	Predispositions and Foreign Policy Surprises: Assessing the Impact of Rational and Biased Beliefs on Strategic Decision-Making.
Hemphill, Portia	Rebel Without a Pause: Discovering the Relationship between Rap Music and the Political Attitudes and Participation of Black Youth.
Howard, Tiffiany Ora	State Pressures and the Forced Migrant: Evaluating Global State Failure in an Effort to Ameliorate the Consequences of Forced Migration in the Developing World.
Kabo, Valenta	The Political Economy of Property Rights: An Examination Into the Components of Land Laws and Their Effects on Politics and Growth.
Katz, Daniel M	Perspectives on Law and Legal Institutions as Complex Adaptive Systems.
Kavanagh, Jennifer Erin	The Dynamics of Protracted Terror Campaigns: Domestic Politics, Terrorist Violence, and Counterterror Responses.
Kostyuk, Nadiya	Public Cyberinstitutions: Signaling State Cybercapacity.
Lee, Jieun	Political Activities of Foreign Multinational Corporations in the United States.
Lerner, Michael	Green Catalysts? The Impact of Transnational Advocacy on Environmental Policy Leadership.
Loftis, Kenyatha Vauthier	Proprietary Threat and the Participation Paradox in Gifted and Talented Education: A Multi-level Mixed Methods Theory of Resource Distribution.
McGee, Heather	Water, International Development and Collective Action: An Impact Assessment of an Irrigation Management Project in Southern Kyrgyzstan.
Okwuje, Ifeoma M F	Analysis of the Contribution of the 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women to Women's Rights: Statistical Findings and Country Cases.
Phinney, Robin Linden	Diverse Interest Group Coalitions and Social Welfare Policy in the United States.
Phoenix, Davin	Anger (Mis)Management? Racial Differences in the Emotional Foundations of Political Action.
Potter, Rachel	Writing the Rules of the Game: The Strategic Logic of Agency Rulemaking.
Ravanilla, Nico	Essays in Political Economy and Governance: Lessons from the Philippines.
Ravishankar, Anita	A Pathway to Prosocial Policing? A Framework for Police Behavior and Three Tests of What Works in Police Reform.
Reynolds, Molly	Exceptions to the Rule: Majoritarian Procedures and Majority Party Power in the United States Senate.
Simonelli, Corina	Economic Counterinsurgency: Implications for Political Violence and Foreign Investment.
Stephens, Lafleur Nadiyah	The Effectiveness of Implicit and Explicit Racial Appeals in a "Post-Racial" America.
Teodoro, Manuel P	Bureaucratic Ambition: Professional Careers, Personal Motives, and Policy Innovation.
Tkacheva, Olesya	Federalism and Democratic Consolidation in Russia and Beyond.
Ullah, Haroon K	Tug of Faith: Understanding the Emergence and Success of Islamic Parties.

Public Policy & Sociology

Student Name	Dissertation Title
Cheng, Siwei	Unequal Origins, Unequal Trajectories: Social Stratification over the Life Course.
Cross, Christina	The Color, Class, and Context of Family Structure and Its Association with Children's Educational Performance.
Dinzey, Zaire Zenit	Fighting Crime, Constructing Segregation: Crime, Housing Policy, and the Social Brands of Puerto Rican Neighborhoods.
Fang, Michael	Three Essays on the Relationship Between Social Ties and Mental Health.
Forbes, Melissa Kay	Climate Change 'Resolution:' Dynamics of Shareholder Engagement between U.S. Firms and Investors.
Gillooly, Jessica	"911, Is This an Emergency?": How 911 Call-Takers Extract, Interpret, and Classify Caller Information.
Greenman, Emily Kate	Intersecting Inequalities: Four Essays on Race, Immigration, and Gender in the Contemporary United States.
Grieger, Lloyd Dale	Three Essays Examining the Behavioral and Socioeconomic Transition to Adulthood in the United States and Africa: Evidence from Longitudinal Studies.
Harris, Angel Luis	Do African Americans Really Resist School: An In-Depth Examination of the Oppositional Culture Theory.
Hevenstone, Debra	Labor Market Inequality and Atypical Employment.
Johnson, Maria S	Through a Daughter's Eyes: Understanding the Influence of Black Fathers on Their Daughters' Conceptualizations of Fatherhood and Womanhood.
Killewald, Sasha (Achen)	What Money Buys and Family Costs: Three Papers on the Work-Family Intersection.
King, Katherine E	Biological, Psychosocial, and Social Capital Implications of the Neighborhood Built Environment.
Lewis, Ronald L'Heureux	Educational Inequality in an Affluent Setting: An Exploration of Resources and Opportunity.
Liu, Airan	Family SES, Non-cognitive Skills and Achievement Inequality in Children's Early Life.
Morrell, Erica	The Politics of Food Policy: Knowledge, Power, and Participation in two American Cities.
Paul, Anju Mary	Multinational Maids: Multistate Migration among Aspiring Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers.
Pavelle, Bridget Jennifer	Life Course Transitions and Instability in Health Insurance Coverage.
Peachey, Everett	State Sponsored Political Socialization and Public Diplomacy Exchange Program Outcomes: The Case of the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program.
Perez, Anthony D	Muddy Waters: The Fluidity and Complexity of Racial and Ethnic Identification in the U.S.
Pineda, Daniela	A Federal Intervention to Improve Latino College Participation: Evidence from the Title V Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program.
Roberts, Christopher Nigel	Exploring Fractures within Human Rights: An Empirical Study of Resistance.
Ross, Karen Elizabeth	Charter Schools and Segregation: The Cases of Michigan and North Carolina.
Seefeldt, Kristin S	Three Essays on Women Low-wage Work and Economic Well-being.
Sternthal, Michelle J	The Social Determinants of Health Disparities: The Role of Social and Temporal Contexts.
Turner, Kennedy	On the Battlefield?: Using Cultural Schemas to Navigate the Racial Terrain of College.
Wyse, Jessica Jasmine	Race, Gender and the Administration of Justice in a Community Corrections System.
Yarger, Jennifer Lyn Eckerman	Three Essays Examining Social Determinants of Fertility Attitudes and Behavior: Evidence from Longitudinal Studies.
Zelner, Jonathan Leigh	Integrating Social and Biological Processes of Infectious Disease Transmission at Three Levels: Household, Community and Region.

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Dissertations from 2024 2024

Unheard Voices: Lady Health Workers in Lahore's Peripheral Communities , Samiya Khalid

Finding the Blind Sports: An Exploration of the Complexity and Diffusion of Police Body Camera Policies , Stephanie Lessing

Dissertations from 2023 2023

Public Transit Funding Through Real Estate: Opportunities for Agency Reform , George Chichirau

E-Quality: An Analysis of Digital Equity Discourse and Co-Production in the Era of COVID-19 , Kelsey E. Edmond

Dissertations from 2022 2022

Caged Animals: The Reproduction of Social and Educational Inequalities in Indian Secondary Schools , Vishakha Agarwal

Assessing Without Proficiency: The Impact of Standardized Testing on English Learners in Massachusetts , Michael Berardino

The Impact of ADHD Diagnosis on the Experiences of People Involved in the Justice System , Sarah Kuck Jalbert

Opening the Halls of Power: Implementing a Community Organizing Approach to Parent Engagement in New York City’s Community Schools , Andrew R. King

Essays on Race, Class, Hospital Cultural Competence and COVID-19 Disparities , Rumel Mahmood

Dissertations from 2021 2021

Sustainable Investing in U.S. Private Sector Workplace Retirement Plans: A New Institutionalist Perspective , Bridget Bearden

Assessment of Housing Mismatch: Learning from Slum Communities in Small Cities of India , Namesh Killemsetty

Stayers and Leavers: Using Care Work Theory and The Functional Taxonomy to Understand Turnover among Family Child Care Providers , Colleen Fay Manning

Dissertations from 2020 2020

Potty Politics: Investigating the Policymaking Processes of Sanitation Service to the Urban Poor in Delhi , Tanushree Bhan

Doctor-Patient Communication by Email: Trends, Determinants, and Effects of Digital Disparities on Email Use and the Association between Email Use and Quality of Communication in Health Care , Dragana Bolcic-Jankovic

Housing First: Defining and Analyzing a New Treatment Paradigm for Homelessness in the United States , Caitlin A. Carey

How Universal are Democratic Values? A Study of the Urban Middle Class’s Valuation of Core Democratic Ideals in a Hybrid Regime , Priyanka Kabir

How Does Grading Schools Impact Florida’s Teachers and Students? The Need for a New Approach to School Accountability , Luke Aubry Kupscznk

What does Social Agency have to do with it? Positive Pathways to Adulthood for Groups of Opportunity Youth and College Students in Rhode Island , Perri S. Leviss

Innovation Through Popular Diffusion: Seeking Social Equity Through Cannabis Legalization in Massachusetts , Jeffrey Moyer

Participate for Peace: The Impacts of Participatory Deliberative Democracy on Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Central America , Marcia D. Mundt

Women’s Pathways to Political Leadership in Kenya: Institutional and Cultural Factors Impacting Women’s Political Leadership in County Level Government , Rose A. Nyaondo

Using Lenses to Understand Policy Failures: The Case of the 2012 Census in Chile , M. Angélica Pavez

Lost in Translation: Understanding Education Policy Implementation in Nepal , Sushmita Subedi

The Role of Massachusetts Cultural Council in State Cultural Policy: Institutionalism, Policy Goals, and Perceived Outcomes in the Arts and Culture , Hsin-Ching Wu

Dissertations from 2019 2019

Welfare Reform and the Health of Low-Income Single Mothers: The Impact of Policies Under the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunities and Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) , Allyson L. Baughman

To Adopt or Not to Adopt: Factors Impacting States’ Pursuit and Implementation of ACA’s Home and Community-Based Programs , Lisa Kalimon Beauregard

Place, Preferences, and Policy: An Analysis of Funding Education Along the Urban-Rural Divide , Kattalina Berriochoa

Crafting the Government Mobile Application: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Public Value Creation as it Relates to Citizen Engagement and Participation in the Development of Government Smart City Mobile Application , Sean M. Mossey

Dissertations from 2018 2018

Carbon Pricing in a Complex Adaptive System , Merritt Randall Hughes

Beyond the Tower of Babel: Finding a Better Path to Reconciling and Uniting Namibians, A Case Study of Windhoek Surburbs/Townships , Ndumba J. Kamwanyah

The Effect of Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Disparities in Access to Care and Health Status , Hyunjung Lee

Tobacco Advertisements and Compliance at the Point of Sale: The Case of Massachusetts , Omobukola Usidame

Dissertations from 2017 2017

Understanding Romani Deprivation in Serbia: From Symbolic Inclusion Prescriptions to Meaningful Pathways to Economic Integration , Marija Bingulac

Regional P20 Councils: Addressing the Education Pipeline through Regional Learning and Cross-Sector Collaboration , Elaine K. Donnelly

Understanding How State Legislators Define Problems: The Case of High and Rising Healthcare Costs in Massachusetts , Monica C. Garlick

Civil Society Organization Practices to End Violence against Women and Girls with Disabilities in Mexico , Ana María Sánchez Rodríguez

Understanding University Graduates’ (Un) Employability in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Cameroon , Alvine Murielle Tchuathi Sangang

Performance Management and Decision-Making in State Agencies: The Case of Massachusetts , Ryan M. Whalen

Dissertations from 2016 2016

'Whose Goals Am I Meeting?' Policy and Practice Dilemmas in Adult Basic Education (ABE) in the Era of Accountability , Alma Hallulli Biba

Dissertations from 2015 2015

Frontline Youth Workers: Meaning-Making and Street-Level Policy , Sarah Hogue

Mind the Gap: The Integration of Physical and Mental Healthcare in Federally Qualified Health Centers , Karen R. Monaghan

The Politics of Official English: Exploring the Intentions and the Outcomes behind English-Only Policies in the United States , David Gonzalez Nieto

Dissertations from 2014 2014

Weighing the Benefits and Risks Associated with Proprietary School Attendance for Low-Income Single Mother Students , Carolyn L. Arcand

Constructing the American Dream: How Beliefs Influence Decisions about Homeownership , Rachel Bogardus Drew

A Longitudinal Look at Social Protection: Does Unequal Receipt of Employment-Based Benefits Lead to Health Disparities, thus Limiting Earnings Mobility? , Amy B. Helburn

Economic Development in the Massachusetts Life Sciences Cluster: Shared Prosperity or a Big Tradeoff? , Brandynn Holgate

An Analysis of the Influence of the Supervisory Agency in Determining Community Reinvestment Act Performance Evaluation Grades , Howard Payton

A Fresh Perspective: Public Choice Theory and the Massachusetts Legislator , John F. Quinn

Engaging Youth: Linking Design and Implementation Choices of Out-Of-School Time Programs in Boston to the Development of Political Engagement Attitudes in Youth Age 14 to 18 , Felicia M. Sullivan

Dissertations from 2013 2013

Producing Space: Block-By-Block Change in a Gentrifying Neighborhood , Jen Douglas

Microfinance: A Tool for Financial Access, Poverty Alleviation or Gender Empowerment ? - Empirical Findings from Pakistan , Ghazal Mir Zulfiqar

Dissertations from 2012 2012

The Economic Relationships Between Institutions of Higher Education and Municipalities , Dale H. Allen

Corruption, Democracy, Inequality and Economic Growth: Exploring the Theoretical and Empirical Relationship in South America, 1995-2008 , Danny García

Health Reform Challenges: Understanding Low-Income Massachusetts Residents Who Remain Uninsured , Michael Tutty

Dissertations from 2011 2011

Interpersonal Conflicts in Hospitals: Their Fingerprints, Consequences and Resolution , Talia Berman-Kishony

Knots of Knowledge: How Community-Based Organizations Advance Social Change , Jennifer Cohen

Youth Employment and Unemployment in Developing Countries: Macro Challenges with Micro Perspectives , Berna Kahraman

It's not so Simple: Understanding Participant Involvement in the Design, Implementation, and Improvement of Cash & Counseling Programs , Erin E. McGaffigan

Legal Experiences of Women Survivors of Domestic Violence: A Need for Policies that Address the Justice Gap , Kimberly Ann Puhala

The Value of Getting Out: The Impact of School Leaders' International Experiences , Shelley Tinkham

Dissertations from 2010 2010

Alignment of Community Preferences, Economic Development Goals, and Policy: Considering Economic Development Goals, Their Expression, and Their Execution in Economically Struggling Communities , Rebecca Lynn Moryl

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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.

CAUGHT IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM: HOW TEACHER LABOR MARKETS RESPOND TO POLARIZED EDUCATION POLICIES , Danielle Duffy Chipman

THREE ESSAYS ON ENVIRONMENTAL RISK AND POLICY , Samuel Owens

ESSAYS ON THE DYNAMICS OF SUBNATIONAL PUBLIC FINANCE IN INDONESIA , Much Rosidi

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LOCAL REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE POLICIES AND URBAN HOUSING MARKETS , Lucas Taulbee

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

THREE ESSAYS ON CONSUMPTION TAXATION IN INDONESIA , Partomuan Transparenter Juniult

THREE ESSAYS ON RURAL EDUCATION: DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES FOCUSED ON FEDERAL RURAL DEFINITIONS AND POLICY CHANGES , Kyung Ha Oh

A Multilevel Jurisdictional Analysis of the Impact of Walmart on Host Communities , Matt Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

THREE ESSAYS ON GOVERNANCE, INEQUALITY, AND SOCIAL EQUITY , Sarah Ausmus Smith

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Two Essays on Governments Devolving Fiscal Authority to Lower-Level Actors , Jinsol Park

Three Essays on Tax Compliance in Indonesia , Himawan Saputro

ESSAYS ON EVASION AND ENFORCEMENT IN VALUE ADDED TAX (VAT) , Syed Jawad Ali Shah

COLLABORATIVE COMPETITION IN HOMELESS SERVICES: THREE ESSAYS ON FEDERAL-LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS , Andrew Alfred Sullivan

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Home Rule, Local Autonomy, And Municipal Government Behavior , Xin Chen

Move or Improve? Place, Policy, and Educator Labor Markets , Cory Curl

Essays on Economic Development Policies , Hakyeon Lee

EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH TO DRUG CRISIS , Jiebing Wen

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

THE EFFECTS OF NATURAL RESOURCE DEPENDENCE AND DEMOCRACY ON THE INCREMENTAL BUDGETING THEORY AND PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM WITHIN A BUDGETARY CONTEXT , Barrak Ghanim Algharabali

THE DECISION TO DECENTRALIZE GOOD PROVISION IN THE UNITED STATES: A STUDY IN CLEAN ENERGY POLICY , Whitney Michelle Davis

THREE ESSAYS ON WELFARE POLICIES IN AMERICAN STATES: EXPLAINING AMERICAN WELFARE STATES IN THE POST-WELFARE REFORM ERA , Hyokyung Kwak

THREE ESSAYS ON MUNICIPAL STRUCTURE AND GOVERNMENT FISCAL MANAGEMENT OUTCOMES , Wenchi Wei

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

THE ALLOCATION OF STATE APPROPRIATIONS AND STUDENTS ACROSS DIFFERENT TYPES OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION , Joshua L. Bush

STATE SUBSIDY COMPOSITION IN HIGHER EDUCATION: POLICY AND IMPACTS , Alex Eugene Combs

THREE ESSAYS ON FINANCIAL COLLABORATION IN THE GOVERNMENT AND NONPROFIT SECTORS , Saerim Kim

A MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX FOR THE UNITED STATES , Nate Kratzer

USING PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES TO UNDERSTAND CITIZEN ATTITUDES TOWARD GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AND COLLABORATIVE BEHAVIORS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR , Jue Young Mok

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Ph.D. in Policy Analysis

Welcome to the Doctor of Philosophy in Policy Analysis program at Pardee RAND Graduate School. Our program prepares students to tackle complex policy challenges through rigorous coursework and hands-on research experience.

Why Choose Pardee RAND?

In today's rapidly changing world, the ability to interpret data and analyze policies is more important than ever before. At Pardee RAND Graduate School, we recognize the need for advanced education and training in policy analysis to address complex global challenges. Students in our Ph.D. program develop a deep understanding of policy analysis and its role in shaping policy decisions. Our program is designed to challenge students to think critically and creatively about complex policy issues, while also providing them with the tools and resources needed to conduct cutting-edge research.

By pursuing the Pardee RAND Ph.D. in Policy Analysis, you will

• Engage in a rigorous curriculum taught by RAND experts in areas ranging from economics, technology, and science policy to quantitative and qualitative methods.
• Work alongside experienced professionals and policy experts, gaining valuable real-world experience and exposure to the latest research in the field.
• Graduate with a valuable set of skills, connections, and experience that prepares you for a successful career in policy analysis and related fields.
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Our Ph.D. program provides students with a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience and develop expertise in policy analysis. We invite you to explore our website to learn more about our program and the opportunities it offers.

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Ph.d. curriculum.

Pardee RAND requires students to take a total of 18 units of core and elective courses and encourages students to follow an interdisciplinary path.

Core Coursework

A total of 8 units

• Designing Empirical Research
• Ethics in Theory, Policy, and Practice
• Microeconomic Theory I: Mathematics of Economic Systems*
• Microeconomic Theory II
• Perspectives on Policy Analysis
• Policy Making in Complex Environments
• Statistics for Policy Analysis I*
• Statistics for Policy Analysis II
• Technology and Society

*Students may waive out of Statistics for Policy Analysis I and/or Microeconomic Theory I if they pass an exam at the start of the program. They will need to take another course (or courses) to fulfill the total unit requirements.

Electives, Distribution Requirements, and Analytic Concentrations

Students also have two distribution requirements, which they fulfill through their ten units of elective courses .

Students develop competencies in modeling human systems by completing at least two full units in conceptual modeling electives courses that explore

• computational modeling
• economic modeling
• operations research
• qualitative modeling

Students also develop empirical analysis competencies though at least two units of data collection or analysis electives courses, such as

• comparative historical analysis
• econometrics
• machine learning
• social network analysis
• survey analysis
• text analysis

Students may also focus their remaining electives and pursue one or more analytic concentrations .

On-the-Job Training

Pardee RAND Graduate School stands out from other programs by requiring Ph.D. students to complete 300 days of on-the-job training (OJT) as part of their doctoral degree. This experiential learning opportunity allows students to work on real-world research projects, both at RAND and with external partners.

As active members of multidisciplinary RAND project teams, students engage in research and data analysis while gaining a deep understanding of the role analysis plays in solving complex policy problems. This "learning by doing" approach provides students with hands-on experience and prepares them to make meaningful contributions to the field of policy analysis.

Policy-Relevant Dissertation

Admission requirements.

• Be available to participate in our full-time research-and-study program at RAND's headquarters in Santa Monica, California
• Have completed a bachelor's degree by the program start date; a master's degree or prior research or work experience is desired
• Demonstrate strong quantitative skills; all majors and disciplines are welcome

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Pardee RAND's generously funded Ph.D. program is designed to enable students to cover their tuition while receiving a regular stipend for living expenses each year, potentially graduating debt-free.

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Public Administration Doctoral Dissertations

Dissertations/capstones from 2024 2024.

Transformational Leadership for a Remote Work Environment – Post COVID-19 Pandemic Era , Liza Craig

Impact on Abortion Rates: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Planned Parenthood’s Refusal of Title X Family Planning Funding , Carrissa Griffing

Community Integration Experiences of Formerly Homeless Persons with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) Housed in Washington DC using the Housing First Model , Gwendolyn Harter

Land Use Policy Impact on Health Equity in Rural America Counties , Shayla Holmes

Diagnosing Market Inefficiency: The Impact of Consolidation in the Private Health Insurance Market on Healthcare Costs in the United States , Zachary Ising

Power to Elect: Voter Perception of Accessibility in North Carolina , Kristi Langford

Community Cultural Wealth and its Impact on Pandemic Relief Funding for Small Businesses , Brett Smith

Securing U.S. Critical Infrastructure: Evaluating the Function of a Cybersecurity Defense-in-Depth Strategy to Maintain the Security and Resilience of Energy Infrastructure Against Cyberattacks and Geopolitical Risks , Dion Stovall

The Impact and Effectiveness of Welfare Programs in Reducing Poverty in South Asia , Lamar Stovall

Examining Academic Partnerships: An Explanatory Sequential Design of the Perceptions and Impacts of Homeland Security’s Engagement with Higher Education Institutions , Frederick Turner

Dissertations/Capstones from 2023 2023

How can the Baka people of the Southern Region of Cameroon be empowered to participate in the design, monitoring, evaluation, and implementation of programs to reduce poverty in their community? , TIMOTHY ABORA

Descriptive Analysis of Open Government Practices of Four Mid-Sized Cities in New York State , Brian Bray

An Analysis of the Contracted Service Providers of Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) , Elsie Chocho

Sustaining Equitable Child Welfare Policies in Foster Care: Perspectives from Non-profit Support Professional and their Role in Multidisciplinary Policy Collaboration , Shirley Dews

Is Nuisance Abatement "Broken Windows" Policing? Searching for Code Enforcement's Impact on Crime , Shane Diller

Evaluating Assertiveness, Support, and Gameplay Patterns by California Rural County Departments in Acquiring Budgetary Resources , Janet Dutcher

Using Input from Administrative Staff to Make Cost-Effective Decisions for Telecommuting, Technology, and Productivity during the COVID-19 Era , Chika Egemba

Term Limits: An Argument for the Senate , Deanna Ferry

The Impact COVID-19 on the Healthcare Industry’s Systems and Policies: A Case Study , Jameyshia Franklin

Reading Proficiency As A Public Policy Agenda Indicator: The Importance Of Reading Ability On The Educational Outcomes Of Students And The Collateral Effects To Society , Mark Jaronczyk

A Case Study of Cross-Sector Collaboration in Community Schools in Central Pennsylvania , Jesscia Knapp

Centering Consumer Dignity Within Volunteer Operations , Meghan Loftus

The Powerful Actors Of The Criminal Justice System: Understanding Prosecutorial Discretion From The Viewpoint of Prosecutors. A Public Administrator's Perspective , Ja'von Long

Unbounding Rationality: Observing and Mitigating K-12 Public Education Administrators’ Cognitive Bias , Julie K. Mesaros

Economic Impact of Land Use Planning (Transit-Oriented Development): A Comparative Analysis , Sam M

Succession and Workforce Planning in Small to Mid-Size Academic Libraries in the United States , Kaci Resau

Quality Check: How Good is Your Emergency Management Program? , Kesley Richardson

Navigators as a Means of Overcoming Administrative Burdens: A Quantitative Study of State-Administered Federal Assistance Programs , Jonathan Sternesky

Diversity Matters: Federal Executives’ Influence , Will Williams

Dissertations/Capstones from 2022 2022

United States Leadership and Collaborative Actions Challenges SARS COVID-19 , Omar Aldabagh

U.S. Families and Mothers Deserve Better .......! , Emmanuel Asante

The Impact of Leadership Style on Employee Job Performance in the Embassy of the Central African Republic in Washington D.C , Xaverie Sandrine Biloa

Why Students Choose a Small Rural State-Owned Institution of Higher Education , Emmalyn Myra Borst Conti

Let’s Talk About Trust: Exploring the Importance of Communication in Building and Maintaining Public Trust in Local Government , Amanda M. Cantlin

Collaborating in Crisis: A Case Study on the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Georgia Pre-Kindergarten Program Providers , Arlene Charles

Community Bonding for Ex-Offenders: The Importance of Recreational Social Activities on the Post-Incarceration reentry Process , Mfon-Obong Edet

Assessment Limitations and the Disparate Impact of Tax Policy on Minoritized Communities , Michael Fouassier

Pennsylvania Game Commission's Public Management of the PA Common Pool Resource White-Tailed Deer Herd , Matthew Frankel

Morbid Curiosity: Exploring the Ethics of Dark Tourism , Kristina Garlick

Evaluability of Community Dispute Resolution Programs: Effecting Change or Maintaining the Status Quo? , Rebecca Gourde

Saving for a Rainy Day: Evaluating the Use and Efficacy of State Budget Stabilization Funds , Brittany Griffin

Impacts of Affordable Childcare on Families , Amanda Kennedy

Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Exploring the Lived Experiences of African-American City/County Managers and the Impact of Mentoring on the Profession , Johnny Mays

Impact of Departmental Procedural Fairness on Officer Psychological Well-Being and Engagement in Organizational Citizenship Behaviors , Jennifer Mehnert

Homelessness in Late Life: An exploration of the lived experience , Danielle Palmisano

The Lived Experience: Collective Realities of Black Maternal Healthcare , Rhonda Parham

Sparking Debate: Private or Public? The Effect of Ownership on Electric Utility Performance , Joseph Pazzalia

A Comprehensive Analysis of the Pennsylvania Wine Industry with Actionable Recommendations for Industry Improvement and Growth , Seth Porter

Factors Contributing to the Success of Rising Latino Leadership in Central California, a Qualitative Inquiry , Yammilette Rodriguez

Understanding Factors Impacting Volunteer Firefighters' Work, Family, and Volunteer Balance to Serve , Christopher Schultz

The Pandemic Dilemma: A Mixed-Methods Study of Student-Centered Science Education in the COVID-19 Pandemic , Jennifer Slavick

The Impact of the Mandatory PHAB Accreditation Process on Environmental Health Programs at Local Health Districts in Ohio , Wesley Vins

Windfall Payment Savings: An Examination of Act 13 Disbursements in Pennsylvania , Corey Young

Dissertations/Capstones from 2021 2021

The Perception of International Students Toward Programs and Support Services Offered by Higher Education Institutions in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States , Charity Alinda

The Impact of Grant Administration and Strategic Management in Nonprofit Organizations , Dammy Bamisile

Organizational Resilience of Cultural Institutions in the Time of COVID-19 , Danielle Boyce

Drinking Water Affordability in Georgia. Are Water Rates Affordable in Georgia and is Infrastructure Investment Influencing Rates? , Guyer Boyle

Mental Health Effects of Maternal Substance Abuse Policymaking: Finding a Solution , SARAH FOSTER

Impact of Online Education on Student Success Outcomes and Institutional Effectiveness: Study of Florida State University System , Maria Graham

Federal employee views across administrations: An examination of the 2010 Obama and 2018 Trump leadership capital and the perceptions of the agency employees , Dimple Sunayna Johnson

Due Process in Academic & Student Misconduct at Community Colleges: An Analysis of Policies, Practices, and Standards through the Lens of Principal-Agent Theory , Erin Logan

Examining the Implementation Fidelity of a Police Field Training Officer Program: A Program Evaluation Perspective: A Mixed Methods Approach. , Yale Y. Margolis

Pioneers or Profiteers? Examining Pennsylvania's Cyber Charter Landscape Through the Lens of Principal-Agent Theory , Greg Mayle

Spatial Disparities in Access to Veterinary Care: Problems, Politics & Policies , Sue Neal

State Government’s Impact on Campus Services for Unaccompanied Homeless Students , Tori Nuccio

Policies & Services Mitigating Gender-Based Violence (GBV): Perceptions of African Immigrant Women in the Northeastern, U.S., & Empowering Their Human Rights. , Chinenye Nwoke

The Factors Influencing Hazard Mitigation Governance , Kyle Overly

False Confession in Wrongful Convictions and the Effect of Recording Custodial Interrogations Through Exoneration , Nana F. Owusu

Local Governmental Structures And Its Effects On Public Services , Quiana Pettiford

Assessing and Measuring the Fiscal Health of Local Governments: A Focus on Pennsylvania Municipalities , Rosa Quintana

The Benefits of Evidence Based Practices in Public Administration: Does Therapeutic Listening Training Increase Emotional Intelligence to Affect Change Management Outcomes in Public and Private Sector Organizations , John Sillup

Mental Health Issues Development in Law Enforcement Officers and Its Impact on Law Enforcement Agencies: The Need for Policies Focused on Law Enforcement Officers Mental Stability , Joseph A Sorgini

Avengers Disassemble! How Varying Views on Public Administration Dismantled the Avengers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe , Tynslei Spence-Mitchell

From Networks of Necessity to the New Normal: How Collaboration and Networks Can Provide Efficient and Equitable Service Delivery in Rural Maryland Counties , Robert Willoughby

Dissertations/Capstones from 2020 2020

Federal Health Reform: Breast Cancer Outcomes , Nia Imani Bailey

The Impact of Training and Development on Employees in the Northeast Region of Florida State Government: An Evaluation of The Northeast Region Professional Development Training Program , Sandy Beaumont

Data-Driven Decision-Making: An Analysis of Needs Assessment Methodology in Northwestern Pennsylvania Nonprofit Organizations , Jason Brady

Rural Veterans of Texas and Their Accessibility to Mental Health Care Services , Jeremy Buchanan

Study Abroad and Liminality: Examining U.S. American Collegiate Undergraduate Student Engagement in Risky Behaviors Betwixt and Between Borders , Jill L. Creighton

United States Department of Defense Acquisition of Leading-Edge Information Technology Services and the Impact of Public Market Research on Efficiency and Effectiveness , Thomas Denning

Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education & Perceived Administrative Biases in Funding Review Processes , Emily Devereux

The Association Between the Products of Alternative Financial Services Providers and the Unbanked in the Era of Banking Deregulation , Dianna Dixon

Evidence-Based Policy and Misinformation: Exploring the Public’s Processing of Information , Amy E. Hann

Promoting social equity: The role of social capital on education outcomes among young adults with a history of foster care and special education. , Shone Hughes

Initiating a Collaborative Cybersecurity Governance Framework at the State Level , Autum C. Pylant

Using Input from Landlords Participating in the Dothan Housing Authority's Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP) to Streamline Operations and Increase Retention , Michael C. Threatt

Skilled Trade Education in America , Brent Tracy

Municipal Fiscal Distress in Pennsylvania: Assessing the Municipalities Financial Recovery Act 47 of 1987 , Terry Tracy

Fare Free Public Transportation Bus Systems: An Examination of Funding Strategies to Replace Passenger Fare Collection , Amy VanGuilder

The Blind Spots: The importance of measuring non-academic indicators that are critical to producing positive outcomes specifically for youth who are living in adverse conditions , Orrin White

Dissertations/Capstones from 2019 2019

An Analysis of Complaints against Police in Philadelphia: A Case for Social Equity and Collaborative Governance in Police Reform , Jacqueline Bailey-Davis

Year-Round Community Supported Agriculture: A View from an Advocacy Coalition Framework Perspective , Kelly A. Baker

The Value of Backyard Chickens in Reducing Municipal Solid Waste , Maureen Breen

An Examination of Federal Discretionary Grant Sustainability in Rural Public School Districts , Autumn L. Grooms

Emotional Intelligence and Secondary Traumatic Stress Experiences of Trial Court Judges , Jody Jacobetz Huber

Women’s Political Empowerment and the Nonprofit Subsectors of Education, Human Services, and Public/Societal Benefit , Lorin McKnight Mayo

Failure to Launch: An exploratory study of the impact of the Workforce Investment Act on transition to adulthood among low income youth , Louise McLoughlin

Capability and Gap Assessments: Influence on Emergency Management Programs , Kelly Myers

Social Construction of Giftedness in the National Defense Education Act of 1958 , Chad Phillips

Guided by Faith? Comparing Faith-based and Secular Nonprofits’ Planning Practices , Jeremy Raff

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Three Essays on Representation, Participation, and Conflict in Environmental Justice Councils , Graham Ambrose

Three Essays on Housing Insecurity , Rhea Acuña

Three Essays on Environmental Justice , Qasim Mehdi

Sustainability, Strategy, and Potential: A Framework for Organizations , Brian Ohl

Leveraging System Context to Understand Collaborative Systems in Modern Public Management , Catherine Annis

Public Administrator Aversion to Randomized Controlled Trials , Emily Bryn Cardon

Three Essays on Urban Property Taxes , Yoon-jung Choi

Three Essays at the Intersection of Child Welfare and Public Policy , Mattie Mackenzie-Liu

Three Essays on Pupil Transportation , Christopher Rick

Sports participation and Labor Market Outcomes: A Correspondence Study , Laura Lorena Rodriguez Ortiz

Three Essays on Public Housing and Social Inequality , Jeehee Han

Three Essays on Climate Change Adaptation in Rural African Communities , Hannah Patnaik

Three Essays On Climate Change Adaptation In Rural African Communities , Hannah Patnaik

Board Members That Tie: Three Essays on Antecedents and Consequences of Nonprofit Board Interlock , Nara Yoon

THREE ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED , Emily Gutierrez

Three Essays on Demand-side Health Policies in India , Raghav Puri

THREE ESSAYS ON PROPERTY TAX ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY , David John Schwegman

Three Essays on the Implementation of Food Assistance Programs , Saied Toossi

Three Essays on Participatory Governance in Public Administration , Suyeon Jo

THREE ESSAYS ON PROPERTY TAX ADMINISTRATION , Yusun Kim

Engagement-Equity Trade-Off: A Mixed-Methods Study of Participatory Budgeting and Property Tax Assessment Appeals in Large US Cities , Iuliia Shybalkina

Three Essays on the Management of Local Government Cash Flows , Michelle Lynn Lofton

Perceptions of Public and Private Partnerships in Costa Rica , Alvaro Andres Salas Castro

Who participates and why? What do they expect and what do they accomplish? An Evaluation of the Superfund Technical Assistance Grant (TAG) Program , Lance R. Cooper

Three Essays on Public Procurement , Zachary Steven Huitink

Building the Airplane While it Flies: A Case Study Approach of Police Development in Kosovo, Liberia, and Timor-Leste , Kevin Krupski

Three Essays in Urban Policy , Judson E. Murchie

The Impact of Environmental Policies and Innovation on the Investment in and Use of Natural Gas-Fired Combined Cycle Generators in the US Electricity Sector , Kelly Ann Stevens

Achieving Public Long-Term Care Insurance Through Social Security Wealth: Microsimulation for the US Case , Alexandre Genest

The Illusion of Collaboration and Bureaucratic Politics in India , Harish Pranav Jagannath

Three Essays on the Origins and Consequences of Public Services Motives , Jason Smith

Explaining Technological Change of Wind Power in China and the United States: Roles of Energy Policies, Technological Learning, and Collaboration , Tian Tang

Role of Information Technology in Policy Implementation of Maternal Health Benefits in India , Nidhi Vij

THREE ESSAYS ON THE LINKS BETWEEN LOCAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURAL CHANGES AND PUBLIC FINANCE , Pengju Zhang

Three Essays on the Supply of Long-Term Care Services to the Elderly in the U.S. , Kanika Arora

Three Essays on U.S. Social Policy’s Impact on the Human Capital Development of Young Adults At-Risk of Poverty , Lincoln H. Groves

BETTER OFF AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF UNIVERSAL LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE SYSTEMS? A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GERMANY, JAPAN, AND KOREA , HEE SEUNG LEE

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, NATURAL HAZARD MITIGATION, AND INNOVATIVE RESPONSES , Qing Miao

UNINTENDED EFFECTS OF CHARTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS , Christian Buerger

Expanding the Usage of Renewable Energy Through Innovation and Technology Transfer , Jung Eun Kim

Taking Nonprofits at Their Word: The Role of Conflict over Mission in Organizational Change and Response to Environmental Pressures , David Gregory Berlan

Addressing Trans-boundary Challenges Through Collaboration: How Organizations "Harmonize" Actions and Decisions Across Problem Landscapes , Rachel Fleishman

Assessing the Role and Impact of Public Policy on Child and Family Violence , Kerri M. Raissian

Hands in the Pockets of Mercurial Donors: How Three Theories Explain Ngo Responses to Shifting Funding Priorities , Khaldoun Abouassi

Diversity, Networks and Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Metropolitan Planning Organizations in the United States , Yujin Choi

Education Finance Reform, School Choice, and Residential Sorting , Ilhwan Chung

The Impact of Citizens' Knowledge On Public Administration: Exploring the Links in Three Social Movements , Vadym Pyrozhenko

Two Octopuses Making Love: An Analysis of Institutional Management Behaviors Across Four Brownfield Remediation and Redevelopment Project Networks in Rochester and Buffalo, NY , Rob Alexander

The Effect of Immigrant Composition on Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City , Ryan Yeung

Boon or Boondoggle? Business Incubation as Entrepreneurship Policy , Alejandro S. Amezcua

Alternative Institutional Arrangements and Government Performance: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Autonomy and Accountability in Public Education , Naomi Aoki

Reducing environmental risks by information disclosure , Hyunhoe Bae

Innovation, trade and access: Three essays on medicines in developing countries , Tamara G. S. Hafner

An Exploratory Study of Management Reform Diffusion in the U.S. Federal Government , Frederick Joseph Marc-Aurele Jr.

Three essays on voluntary HIV testing and the HIV epidemic , Coady Wing

Process dynamics of gender policymaking: Acts of violence against women in South Korea , Jeong-Shim Lee

Three essays examining the relationship between public budgeting policies, resource equity and student outcomes , Lawrence Miller

Public policy & maternal mortality in India , Stephanie Lynette Smith

Learning our lesson: A study on the state of public participation in the New York City public schools system , Marco Antonio Castillo

The role of political environment and the adoption of new information technology for citizen participation and communication by United States municipal government , Michael Ji-Sung Ahn

Patent or publish? - University researcher's choice between traditional and commercial research outcomes , Yixin Dai

Specifying and testing a model of collaborative capacity: Identifying complementary competencies, incentive structures, and leadership lessons for the United States Department of Homeland Security , Heather Getha-Taylor

Exploring knowledge networks for e-government services: A comparative case study of two local governments in Korea , Jooho Lee

Managing information systems in state and local governments: Essays on e-government service adoption and outsourcing , Anna Ya Ni

Are eating and exercise behaviors at school contributing to adolescent obesity in the United States? , Cynthia S. Searcy

Getting what you ask for: Explaining contracted providers' proper use of service monitoring tools , Kristina T. Lambright

Poverty, institutions and child health in post-communist rural Romania: A view from below , Adriana Iuliana Sandu

Two essays: School district responses to state building aid and determinants of pay-as-you-go financing of state capital projects , Wen Wang

The smart-seller challenge: The determinants and the outcomes of privatizing public nursing homes , Anna A. Amirkhanyan

Rationalizing public participation goals: How contextual and organizational factors shape public managers' decision-making process , Maja Husar Holmes

IT outsourcing in public organizations: How does the quality of outsourcing relationship affect the IT outsourcing effectiveness? , Hyun Joon Kim

Why older Americans stop driving: Effects of state licensing policies on reduction and cessation of driving , Elena Koulikov

Comparative public management reform: Cases of policy transfer in Thailand and Malaysia , Ora-orn Poocharoen

Evaluation of New York State property tax policy: Administration and behavioral impacts of School Property Tax Relief (STAR) program , Tae Ho Eom

Three essays on R&D investment and economic development , Yonghong Wu

Can public authorities "just get things done"? An analysis of politically buffered institutions in a contentious policy arena , Carolyn Jordan Bourdeaux

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Changing a policy field? Policy design and collaboration in early care and education , Jessica Elizabeth Sowa

Legislation, administrative change and service provision in South African municipalities, 1995--2000: A study of institutional reform , Matthew Ronald Andrews

Welfare king or drug lord: Are these the viable choices for unemployed young men? , Theresa Cecilia Heintze

The economics, law and politics of subnational counter-cyclical fiscal policies: Testing the effects of budget stabilization funds and general fund surpluses on state expenditures in downturn years. Evidence from American states, 1979--1999 , Yilin Hou

Local government debt policies: Do they make a difference? , William Patrick Kittredge

Health outcome disparities associated with access to primary care for vulnerable groups: Hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions , James N. Laditka

Pursuing rationality in public management: Managing for results in United States state governments , Donald Patrick Moynihan

Do whole-school reform models boost student performance: Evidence from New York City , Robert Bifulco

The effects of schooling on literacy skills: A cross-national study from the International Adult Literacy Survey , Kwangho Jung

Putting out fires in local government: Modeling and measuring the influence of managers on public production with an application to fire protection , Amy E. Kneedler Donahue

Essays on long-term care of the elderly in the United States , Hakan Aykan

School segregation, social capital, and educational costs , Lloyd Blanchard

Information technology adoption in United States county governments: The interaction of environmental changes and managerial strategies on technology adoption , Daniel Thomas Bugler

Value asymmetry and small groups: An investigation of administrative decision-making , Charles Christopher Hinnant

Education finance equity: Judicial treatment of key issues and impact of that treatment on reform , Anna Lukemeyer

Explaining federal government performance information utilization , Strom Zhiqiang Kong

The pursuit of managerial entrepreneurship in the public, private, and nonprofit sector: Does organization matter? , Myung Jae Moon

The influence of state and local governments on elderly migration , Mark David Robbins

Taxes and state and local economics development: The homestead tax option in New York , Wai-Ho Wilson Wong

Breaking through the glass ceiling: Career advancement of African-Americans in the federal government , Margo La Verne Bailey

Care arrangements for frail older persons , Carol Lynne, Jenkins

State policy impacts on firm-level simultaneous environmental-economic efficiency , Eric Wayne Welch

The effect of mandatory, secondary-municipal-bond-market disclosure requirements on the United States municipal bond market: The amended Securities Exchange Act, Rule 15C2-12 of 1994 , Taihwan Yin

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School of Public Policy

College of arts, humanities, and social sciences, ph.d. in public policy.

The Ph.D curriculum for a student without a relevant master’s degree requires 48 hours of coursework and 18 hours of dissertation research. The curriculum is divided into core courses, disciplinary foundation courses and courses in a specific policy area or discipline. Students with a master’s degree will have fewer course requirements.

Core courses – 6 courses (18 credits):

• PUBL 600 Research Methodology
• PUBL 603 Theory and Practice of Policy Analysis
• PUBL 604 Statistical Analysis, plus two additional research method/quantitative analysis courses appropriate to student’s track such as: PUBL 607, 608, or 611; ECON 605 or 611; SOCY 619
• PUBL 609 Social Sciences Approaches to Policy Analysis

Additionally, Ph.D. students must sign up for 18 credits of PUBL 899 (Doctoral Dissertation Research).

Disciplinary foundation courses – 3 courses (9 credits):

• PUBL 602: Microeconomics for Public Policy (formerly ECON 600) or ECON 601 Microeconomic Analysis
• PUBL 601 Political and Social Context of the Policy Process
• SOCY 606 Social Inequality and Social Policy

Study specialization courses – 5 courses (15 credits). Ph.D. students in all specializations except economics and policy history, are required to take a relevant economics course as part of their 5 track courses or 2 electives.

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• Emergency Services
• Evaluation and Analytical Methods
• Health Policy
• Policy History
• Public Management
• Urban Policy

Learn more about study specializations.

Specific course requirements for each area of specialization are listed in the Public Policy Graduate Student Handbook. Course descriptions are in the Graduate Catalog . Course syllabi are on the Public Blackboard site.

Electives Ph.D. students must take 2 additional elective courses (6 credits) that are related to their policy interests.

Doctoral Dissertation All Ph.D. candidates must register for a minimum of 18 semester hours of doctoral dissertation research, PUBL 899. Guidelines for writing and defending dissertations are available on the Public Policy Graduate Student Group site . Copies of proposals and dissertations are available for inspection in the Graduate Student Reading Room.

Browse a list of completed dissertations from previous students. For a full list of theses and dissertations, visit the database search on UMBC’s Library page (database search requires UMBC login).

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PhD Public Policy

This course is available through the following application route(s)

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The PhD programme in Public Policy is a research degree that is normally undertaken full-time over 3-4 years (with a part-time option over a longer period).

This programme provides an interdisciplinary graduate learning and research environment for doctoral studies in the field of public policy. Pooling the resources of the UCD College of Social Sciences & Law and the College of Business, the programme provides doctoral training with considerable flexibility and breadth of interest.

  Our Programmes form part of the UCD Structured PhD programme . Our expert faculty all conduct research in their own fields and welcome expressions of interest from prospective students wishing to study in areas including, but not limited to, those in the list below. Applicants should contact a member of faculty whose research interests match their own.

 UCD’s PhD programme has been designed to not only provide first class supervision in relation to a student’s own research, but also to support that research through access to a broad range of taught modules covering both general research methods training and specific subjects.

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As set out by the requirements of the  UCD Structured PhD Programme (PDF) , candidates are required to complete a minimum of 30 credits of course-work, that is, three 10-credit modules. One of these should be the Research Design module provided jointly by the College of Social Sciences and Law and the College of Business. The other two modules should normally be chosen from among the core modules provided by the Master of Public Policy programme (unless the candidate has already completed this or an analogous degree programme, in which case the required modules will be decided in consultation with the student’s Doctoral Studies Panel).

It is also possible to take additional modules, depending on the training needs identified in consultation with the candidate's principal supervisor and the other two members of the Doctoral Studies Panel (DSP).

The PhD may take the form of a traditional thesis, or a collection of papers (including published papers or papers submitted or prepared for submission) describing a coherent programme of research which has been published or prepared for publication in peer-reviewed journals of international standing, accompanied by a critical and theoretical overview of the work presented in the papers.

A formal transfer assessment takes place after about 15 months (longer if part-time), in order to progress from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of the PhD. Students must submit a body of written work to a review panel, who will conduct an interview on the work submitted; students must have attained an average of B- in all modules, and must also complete a  Research and Professional Development Programme  (RPDP).

All students will submit their final dissertation to UCD and upon successful completion of their examination, will be awarded a UCD PhD.

For inquiries, please contact the Programme Director, Dr. Stephan Koppe in the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice.

For the structured PhD programme in Public Policy, applications are welcomed from applicants with a good Master’s degree in an appropriate area. If you are interested in exploring your research plans further with a member of staff, please feel free to contact us individually.

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Incoming Stage 1 undergraduates can usually select an Elective in the Spring Trimester. Most continuing undergraduate students can select up to two Elective modules (10 Credits) per stage. There is also the possibility to take up to 10 extra Elective credits.

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Public Administration Dissertations and Final Research Papers

Theses/dissertations from 2017 2017.

Employee Engagement and Marginalized Populations , Brenna Miaira Kutch

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Impact of a State Evidence-Based Practice Legislative Mandate on County Practice Implementation Patterns and Inpatient Behavioral Health Discharge , Carl William Foreman

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

A Case Study of Collaborative Governance: Oregon Health Reform and Coordinated Care Organizations , Oliver John Droppers V

Higher Education Reform in Oregon, 2011-2014: A Policy and Legislative History , Sean Pollack

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

The Institutional Context that Supports Team-Based Care for Older Adults , Anna Foucek Tresidder

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Attaining a Sustainable Future for Public Higher Education: The Role of Institutional Effectiveness and Resource Dependence , Mirela Blekic

Governance in the United States Columbia River Basin: An Historical Analysis , Eric Thomas Mogren

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Use of Media Technologies by Native American Teens and Young Adults: Evaluating their Utility for Designing Culturally-Appropriate Sexual Health Interventions Targeting Native Youth in the Pacific Northwest , Stephanie Nicole Craig Rushing

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Oregon Physicians' Perception of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Use of Enforcement Discretion Related to the Use of Opioids in the Treatment of Chronic Pain , Robert Dale Harrison

City Management Theory and Practice: A Foundation for Educating the Next Generation of Local Government Administrators , Scott Douglas Lazenby

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

The Institutionalization of Diversity and Gender Equity Norms and Values in Higher Education Settings , Rowanna Lynn Carpenter

Organizational Complexity in American Local Governance: Deploying an Organizational Perspective in Concept and Analytic Framework Development , Charles David Crumpton

Multi-Level Environmental Governance : a Comparative Case Study of Five Large Scale Natural Resource Management Programs , Shpresa Halimi

Police Organizations : an Empricial Examination of American Sheriff's Offices and Municipal Police Agencies , Matthew Adam Jones

Measuring Community-Engaged Departments: A Study to Develop an Effective Self-Assessment Rubric for the Institutionalization of Community Engagement in Academic Departments , Kevin Kecskes

Creating a Theoretical Framework for Understanding Homeland security using Multiple Frame Analysis , Linda Ann Kiltz

Emerging Governance at the Edge of Constrained Federalism : Public Administrators at the Frontier of Democracy , Gary Lloyd Larsen

George Lakoff"s Theory of Worldview : a Case Study of the Oregon Legislature , Catherine Law

Who Benefits? : a Multilevel Analysis of the Impact of Oregon's Volunteer Mentor Program for Postsecondary Access on Scholarship Applicants , Alisha Ann Lund-Chaix

Organizational Change in Corrections Organizations : the Effect of Probation and Parole Officer Culture on Change in Community Corrections , Shea Brackin Marshman

Lost in Translation : Ideas of Population Health Determinants in the American Policy Arena , Maria Gilson Sistrom

Representation without Taxation : China's Rural Development Initiatives For a New Millenium , Minzi Su

How Organizational Arrangements Affect High Reliability in Public Research Universities: Perceptions of environmental Health and Safety Directors , Rita Finn Sumner

The Washington State Patrol, Accountability-Driven Leadership, and the Organizational Factors that Propelled their Success: An Organizational Analysis , Timothy Carl Winchell

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

The Changing Paradigm of Emergency Management : Improving professional development for the Emergency Manager , Robert Edward Grist

Global Civil Society Finding Collective Voice in Diversity , Kristen Marie Magis

Information Technology Training in the Public Sector : Essential Planning Elements , Betty Jean Reynolds

From Prison to the Community : the Role of Citizen Participation in Female Prisoner Reentry , Dana Roderick Torrey

Network Analysis of a Shared Governance System , Debra Reifman Whitall

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

Presidential Values : Implications for Foreign Policy , Jordan Katherine Durbin

The Interactions between Carbon Regulation and Renewable Energy policies in the United Kingdom , Hal Thomas Nelson

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

Reorganizing the Oregon Department of Human Services : an Exploratory Case Study of Organizational Change , Charles Anthony Gallia

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

Portrayals of Disability in the Professional Preparation of Speech-language Pathologists , Jane Eric Sleeper Gravel

Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002

The Effects of Parent Care and Child Care Role Quality on Work outcomes among dual-earner couples in the sandwiched generation , Angela Rickard

Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000

The Role and Performance of Governmental and Nongovernmental Organizations in Family Planning implementation : Jordan as a Case Study , Khalaf al Hadded

Theses/Dissertations from 1999 1999

The Value of Independence in Old Age , Paula C. Carder

American Indian Elderly and Long-Term Care : Interorganizational Barriers to the Use of Oregon's Home and Community-Based Medicaid Waiver , Jo Lynn Isgrigg

The Effects of Mentoring on Work-parenting Gains and Strains in a Sample of Employed Predominately Female AFDC Recipients , Charlene Rhyne

Theses/Dissertations from 1998 1998

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Physician Assistants , Roderick Stanton Hooker

Theses/Dissertations from 1997 1997

State Funding for Special Education in Oregon : Calculating Cost Differentials of special education for handicapped students in Oregon school districts , Kyung-Sup Kim

Theses/Dissertations from 1996 1996

Scenery as Policy: Public Involvement in Developing a Management Plan for the Scenic Resources of the Columbia River Gorge , Gordon Mathews Euler

Impact of the Medical Library Assistance Act of 1965 on Health Sciences Libraries in the Pacific Northwest: an Interorganizational Approach , Leonoor Swets Ingraham

Administrative Reform in China: Its Impact on Economic Development After Mao , Meiru Liu

Theses/Dissertations from 1994 1994

Oregon Primary Care Physicians' Support for Health Care Reform , Timothy Alan Baker

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