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Jacob A. Klerman

Principal Associate/Scientist, Social & Economic Policy

Jacob A. Klerman is a widely respected economist with more than 20 years experience in social policy research. An expert in non-experimental evaluation of social programs, he was formerly a Senior Economist at the RAND Corporation and Director of RAND's Center for the Study of Social Welfare Policy.

His research has focused on social welfare policy, military manpower, and applied econometrics. He has led projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Labor, Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, and State of California, as well as local governments and foundations.

Klerman has published widely in academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Journal of Labor Economics. He was also a professor in the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies, where he won the Huddleson Teaching Award. He is a research affiliate of the University of Michigan's National Poverty Center, a long-time member of the Organizing Committee for the Economic Demography Workshop, and a former chair of the U.S. Census Bureau's Advisory Committee of Professional Associations.

Klerman received a B.S. in Economics-Applied Mathematics from Brown University and his M.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago.