Lisa K. Schwartz
Vice President; Managing Director, Survey Research, Surveys and Information Services Division

Lisa Schwartz is managing director of survey research and a leading expert in employment and health survey research with experience designing and managing qualitative and quantitative studies of vulnerable populations. She has expertise in designing multimode surveys, one-on-one semi-structured interviews, cognitive interviews, focus group protocols, interviewer and respondent debriefings, split-ballot pre-tests, and usability testing.

Schwartz currently directs a study for the Employment and Training Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor. As principal investigator and Mathematica’s project director for the Impact Evaluation of the YouthBuild Program, she is responsible for the design of youth and grantee surveys that measure program impacts and implementation. The evaluation measures core program outcomes including educational attainment, postsecondary planning, employment, earnings, delinquency and involvement with the criminal justice system, and youth social and emotional development. For the Evaluation of the Senior Community Service Employment Program, she worked with researchers from Social Policy Research Associates to conduct an implementation and outcomes analysis of the program. The study used a mixed-methods approach that included in-depth interviews, site visits, focus groups, and an analysis of outcomes data recorded in the program’s management information system.

Before joining Mathematica in 2005, Schwartz was a senior research scientist at NORC and associate program manager for the American Time Use Survey at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. She also designed modules for the Current Population Survey.

 

Schwartz publishes in peer-reviewed journals such as Monthly Labor Review and Educational Gerontology, and presents at professional conferences sponsored by the American Association for Public Opinion Research, American Psychological Association, and others. Her work has been recognized for exceptional achievement by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor and others. She holds a Ph.D. in cognitive developmental psychology from the University of Maryland.

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