Jennifer Doleac | |
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Alma mater | Williams College (BA) Stanford University (MA, PhD) |
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Doctoral advisor | Caroline Hoxby |
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Discipline | Economics Crime and Discrimination |
Institutions | Texas A&M University |
Website | Official website |
Jennifer Doleac is an American economist and is the vice president of criminal justice at Arnold Ventures.[1] She was previously an associate professor at Texas A&M, where she directed the Justice Tech Lab, was a research affiliate of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, and is on the board of editors of the Journal of Economic Literature.[2] She also hosts the Probable Causation podcast. In October 2022, Vox named her to their "Future Perfect 50," a list of "scientists, thinkers, scholars, writers, and activists building a more perfect future,"[3] writing, "Doleac looks at criminal justice policy through the lens of causal factors on a society-wide level."[4]