Matthew Stagner
Senior Fellow; Director of Human Services Research, Chicago

Prior to joining Mathematica, Stagner served as executive director of Chapin Hall and as a senior lecturer at the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies, both housed at the University of Chicago. Stagner also served as director of the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population at the Urban Institute and director of the Division of Children and Youth Policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

Among his many professional activities and honors, Stagner is a member of the Welfare and Family Self-Sufficiency Research Technical Working Group in the Office of Policy Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, DHHS. He has also served as a reviewer for the Children and Youth Services Review, the Journal of Adolescent Health and the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences Early Childhood Panel. Stagner received the National Partnership for Reinventing Government “Hammer Award” for hishelp in creating the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. He is also a recipient of the Commendable Service Award from DHHS.

He holds a Ph.D. from the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, and a master’s in public policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Stagner also serves on the steering committee of the Consortium on Chicago School Research.