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Jeffrey Grogger, Irving Harris Professor in Urban Policy, University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy

Jeffrey Grogger is the Irving Harris Professor in Urban Policy at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Mass.) and a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn, Germany). An economist whose work focuses on problems of the low-income population, he is perhaps best known for his research on welfare reform, which culminated in the book Welfare Reform: Effects of a Decade of Change (with Lynn Karoly). He has also written numerous academic articles on issues such as crime, racial profiling, and migration. Before moving to Chicago, Grogger was Professor of Public Policy and Economics at UCLA. In addition to his academic work, he has consulted for organizations including the General Accounting Office, the Attorney General’s Office of the State of California, and the World Bank.