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Jeffrey Grogger.

Jeffrey Grogger

Visiting Professor

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jgrogger@uchicago.edu
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Biography

Professor Jeffrey Grogger is the Irving Harris Professor in Urban Policy at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and an Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance. He has authored dozens of scholarly articles focusing on problems of low-income populations. An applied microeconomist, he has worked on issues including crime, education, migration, and various aspects of racial inequality. He is a leading authority on social insurance programs and on US welfare reform. He received a PhD in economics from the University of California, San Diego. Before joining Harris, he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has served as a co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources, as Chair of the National Longitudinal Surveys Technical Review Committee, as a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, and as a research fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labour.

Publications

CEP discussion papers
Criminal charges, risk assessment and violent recidivism in cases of domestic abuse

Domestic abuse is a pervasive global problem. Here we analyze two approaches to reducing violent DA recidivism. One involves charging the perpetrator with a crime; the other provides protective services to the victim on ... Read more...

Dan A. Black, Jeffrey Grogger, Tom Kirchmaier and Koen Sanders

20 January 2023

Journal article
How did safety-net reform affect the education of adolescents from low-income families?

Roughly 25 years ago, the US safety net was substantially reformed. Here we ask how those reforms affected the educational attainment of youths who were teens at the time those reforms took place. We take a difference-in... Read more...

Jacob Bastian, Luorao Bian and Jeffrey Grogger

01 August 2022

Journal article
How did safety-net reform affect early adulthood among adolescents from low-income families?

In the 1990s, the US safety net was substantially reformed. We ask how those reforms collectively affected early-career outcomes among youths who were teens when the reforms took effect. We consider employment, safety-ne... Read more...

Jacob Bastian, Luorao Bian and Jeffrey Grogger

01 September 2021

Journal article
Comparing Conventional and Machine-Learning Approaches to Risk Assessment in Domestic Abuse Cases

We compare predictions from a conventional protocol-based approach to risk assessment with those based on a machine-learning approach. We first show that the conventional predictions are less accurate than, and have simi... Read more...

Jeffrey Grogger, Sunetra Gupta, Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier

24 March 2021

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
In brief... Tackling domestic violence using machine learning

Artificial intelligence could help to protect victims of domestic violence, according to research by Jeffrey Grogger, Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier... Read more...

Jeffrey Grogger, Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier

15 July 2020

CEP discussion papers
Comparing conventional and machine-learning approaches to risk assessment in domestic abuse cases

We compare predictions from a conventional protocol-based approach to risk assessment with those based on a machine-learning approach. We first show that the conventional predictions are less accurate than, and have simi... Read more...

Jeffrey Grogger, Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier

05 February 2020

Journal article
Speech and Wages

Although language has been widely studied, relatively little is known about how a worker's speech, in his/her native tongue, is related to wages, or what explains the observed relationship. To address these questions, I ... Read more...

Jeffrey Grogger

01 October 2019

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