Deborah Reed
Vice President; Director of Research

Reed is directing a cost-benefit analysis of the Registered Apprenticeship program for the U.S. Department of Labor. She is also helping to lead an examination of enrollment modernization efforts for public social services in several states that will inform California’s plans for enrollment centralization.

Reed is contributing to the impact analysis for the Youth Transition Demonstration, a randomized control trial funded by the Social Security Administration to help young people with disabilities make the transition from school to work. She also serves as the lead for the Quality Review Team for the What Works Clearinghouse, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education.

Prior to joining Mathematica in 2009, Reed was director of research and a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), where she was the first recipient of the Thomas C. Sutton Chair in Policy Research. Her recent PPIC publications include Sanctions and Time Limits in California’s Welfare Program Poverty in California: Moving Beyond the Federal Measure and Retention of New Teachers in California. Before joining PPIC, she was an adjunct professor of economics at the University of Michigan. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, including the American Economic Review, Demography, and the Review of Income and Wealth. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.