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Reed Named Vice President at Mathematica:
Leads Firm’s Oakland Office
Media Advisory: March 8, 2010
Contact: Amy Berridge, (609) 945-3378
About Deborah Reed: Mathematica Policy Research recently announced the appointment of Deborah Reed as vice president. Reed, previously senior fellow and director of research at the Public Policy Institute of California, joined Mathematica last year as director of research in the firm’s new Oakland, Calif., office, Mathematica’s first West Coast regional location. The new office, with a staff of 13 research and survey professionals, has enhanced the company's capacity to conduct rigorous, multidisciplinary research and large-scale surveys to improve public well-being. Oakland staff are currently fielding studies of First 5 LA, school meal programs, adolescent pregnancy prevention approaches, social service enrollment modernization in California, state workforce training initiatives, and other social policy topics.
Expertise and Publications: A nationally recognized expert in child poverty and well-being, immigration, income and labor market issues, educational quality, and racial and ethnic disparities, Reed is well known for her expertise in state policy and has directed many studies of education and the economy. She was the first recipient of the PPIC Thomas C. Sutton Chair in Policy Research. She was also an adjunct professor of economics at the University of Michigan and a consultant for the World Bank. Widely published in her field, her most recent publications include Can California Import Enough College Graduates to Meet Workforce Needs? Poverty in California: Moving Beyond the Federal Measure, and Retention of New Teachers in California. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.
Quote: “We are excited to be a part of Mathematica’s West Coast presence during this period of dynamic growth,” said Reed. “As we face the social policy challenges ahead, the Oakland team is committed to bringing the best analytical and methodological tools to bear on issues of importance to local, state, and national decision makers.”
Mathematica’s Oakland Office: Mathematica, one of the nation's premier social policy research firms, opened its regional office at 505 14th Street in downtown Oakland, Calif., in January 2009. Mathematica continues to recruit researchers to join its staff of over 170 doctoral-level professionals, including staff with degrees in economics, public policy, education, survey research, statistics, psychology, sociology, demography, and related fields.
About Mathematica: Mathematica Policy Research, a nonpartisan research firm, provides a full range of research and data collection services, including program evaluation and policy research, survey design and data collection, research assessment and interpretation, and program performance/data management, to improve public well-being. Its clients include federal and state governments, foundations, and private-sector and international organizations. The employee-owned company, with offices in Princeton, N.J., Ann Arbor, Mich., Cambridge, Mass., Chicago, Ill., Oakland, Calif., and Washington, D.C., has conducted some of the most important studies of health care, international, disability, education, family support, employment, nutrition, and early childhood policies and programs.