Jeffrey Grogger, Ph.D.

Jeffrey Grogger is the Irving Harris Professor in Urban Policy in the Harris School

Jeff Grogger, the Irving Harris Professor in Urban Policy in the Harris School, specializes in labor economics, applied microeconomics, applied econometrics, and economics of crime. His recent work has examined the effects of welfare time limits and racial profiling.

Grogger received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego. He is a coeditor of the Journal of Human Resources and an associate editor for the Journal of Population Economics. Before joining the Harris School, he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Grogger has also been a research fellow in the Office of the Attorney General of the State of California. He is a member of the National Longitudinal Surveys Technical Review Committee, a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn, Germany).

Books

Welfare Reform: Effects of a Decade of Change
by Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn A. Karoly; 2005; Harvard University Press.

Selected Working Papers

"Testing for Racial Profiling in Traffic Stops from Behind a Veil of Darkness" (with Greg Ridgeway), Harris School Working Paper 05.7, June 2005

Related News

"U of C, City Team up to Stop the Violence" (ABC 7 WLS-TV, April 11, 2008)
Jeffrey Grogger is one of the faculty members researching youth violence for a new University of Chicago study in collaboration with the City of Chicago.
"Shifting Fortunes" (University of Chicago Magazine, Nov/Dec 2007)
Harris School professor Jeffrey Grogger explores the connection between immigration (both legal and illegal) and African American employment.
"Right thing pays off,” (July 31, 2007)
Jeffrey Grogger on the economics of fighting poverty in a Chicago Sun-Times article.
Jeffrey Grogger recognized by the American Statistical Association (July 12, 2007)
The American Statistical Association honored Jeffrey Grogger and Greg Ridgeway of the RAND Corporation with the 2007 Outstanding Statistical Application Award for their paper, “Testing for Racial Profiling in Traffic Stops from Behind a Veil of Darkness." Learn more.
"Immigration Hurts Blacks." (June 3, 2007)
Jeffrey Grogger comments on immigration, employment, and the impact on the African American population in a Chicago Sun-Times article.
See also: "Effects of Immigration on African-American Employment and Incarceration.", National Bureau of Economic Research Digest, May 2007.
"Hahn seeks to bar new anti-gang policy,” (April 7, 2007)
Jeffrey Groggeron on gang injunctions in the Los Angeles Times
Jeffrey Grogger discusses welfare reform after 10 years on WBEZ program Eight Forty-Eight (August 22, 2006)
Audio segment available here.
"A Decade After Welfare Overhaul, a Shift in Policy and Perception" (August 21, 2006)
Jeffrey Grogger, Professor in Urban Policy in the Harris School, recommends needed changes in welfare reform in a New York Times article.
"Half Fixed or Half Broken" (August 14, 2006)
Jeffrey Grogger, Professor in Urban Policy in the Harris School, discusses the welfare reforms of 1996 in a Chicago Tribune editorial
In an article in The Economist, Jeffrey Grogger discusses welfare reform on the eve of its 10-year anniversary, the program's effects, and the findings published in his recent book, Welfare Reform: Effects of a Decade of Change.
Read more: "From Welfare to Workfare" (The Economist, July 27, 2006)
In a July 13, 2006 Newsday.com article, Jeffrey Grogger recommends ways of collecting accurate data to determine whether or not police are stopping motorists based on their race.
Read the article: "Data sparks race, traffic stop debate"
Jeffrey Grogger discusses racial profiling on WBEZ program Eight Forty-Eight (June 21, 2005)
Audio segment available here.
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