Jeremy Barofsky is an Associate Research Professor and the Executive Director of the Better Government Lab at the McCourt School of Public Policy. His research focuses on the intersection between population health and poverty alleviation and uses experimental and quasi-experimental methods to understand how government policies affect well-being. Recently, his work has focused on measuring how administrative burdens in the U.S. safety net affect program access, poverty, and health. He is also interested in how racialized minority groups and immigrants have been disproportionately denied access to government resources for which they are eligible through the imposition of administrative burdens.
His research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Health Economics, The Lancet, and Health Affairs and has been featured by news organizations such as the New York Times, Scientific American, and The Hill. In addition, his research was cited by the Biden administration’s updated Public Charge Regulation.
Previously, he was the Director of Research and Evaluation at ideas42. He has been a non-resident associate at Tulane University’s Commitment to Equity Institute, both the Okun-Model Fellow in Economic Studies and a Non-resident Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, and a postdoctoral research scholar at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California.
He holds a doctorate from Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Global Health and Population (Economics Concentration) and an MA in economics from Boston University.
Academic Appointment: Associate Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy
Harvard University – Ph.D., Public Health
Boston University – M.A., Economics