Jennifer Doleac

Jennifer Doleac
Alma materWilliams College (BA)
Stanford University (MA, PhD)
Occupations
  • Economist
  • businesswoman
Academic background
Doctoral advisorCaroline Hoxby
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics
Crime and Discrimination
InstitutionsTexas A&M University
WebsiteOfficial 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]

  1. ^ "Arnold Ventures Hires Jennifer Doleac as Executive Vice President of…". Arnold Ventures. Retrieved March 9, 2023.
  2. ^ "CSWEP Board: Jennifer Doleac". American Economic Association. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  3. ^ Communications, Vox (October 20, 2022). "Vox Announces Inaugural Future Perfect 50 List Honoring Visionary Change Agents". Vox. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  4. ^ Dixon-Luinenburg, Miranda (October 20, 2022). "Jennifer Doleac is helping us find nuanced, effective ways to fight crime". Vox. Retrieved October 26, 2022.