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Anu Rangarajan
Vice President, Director, Center for International Policy Research and Evaluation
Anu Rangarajan is an expert in evaluation research and antipoverty policies in the United States and other countries. She has conducted many studies of labor market, education, nutrition, welfare-to-work initiatives, development projects, and other poverty reduction programs.
Rangarajan, who joined the firm in 1989, has overseen studies of programs aimed at alleviating poverty in Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, South America, and other locales. She directs a project to reduce rural poverty in Armenia. She is principal investigator on Mathematica's evaluation of programs to help youth with disabilities transition to adulthood.
Rangarajan’s work has been published in journals such as Demography, Family Planning Perspectives, and the Journal of Human Resources. She has been an officer of the American Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. She teaches program evaluation at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and has a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Evaluation research and antipoverty policies
- Labor market, education, nutrition, and welfare-to-work initiatives
- Programs designed to support people with disabilities in employment
- Various positions, Policy, Program, and Executive Committees, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2000-2007
- Advisory Committee, Legal Services of New Jersey evaluation of the Welfare and Workforce Development System
- Reviewer, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and Social Service Review
- "The Dynamics of Women Disconnected from Employment and Welfare." Social Service Review (March 2012)
- "Evaluation of the Rwanda Threshold Program: Baseline Report." (October 2011)
- "Improving Sanitation at Scale: Lessons from TSSM Implementation in East Java, Indonesia." (June 2011)
- "The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Interim Report on Transition WORKS" (February 2011)