Jessica Pac

Credentials: Assistant Professor, Social Work

Email: pac@wisc.edu

Address:
314 School of Social Work Bldg
1350 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706

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Jessica Pac is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jessica’s work is motivated by the notion that that inequalities in infancy drive adulthood disparities. Jessica’s research broadly harnesses applied econometric and data science methods to provide novel insight on mandatory reporting behaviors and the effects of antipoverty and work-family policy supports on maternal employment, safety, and health, and infant and child safety and health. Jessica holds an MPA with a concentration in Social Policy from Cornell University and a PhD with concentrations in Economics and Social Policy at Columbia University School of Social Work.

Selected Publications:

Pilarz, Alejandra Ros, and Jessica Pac. “How does work during pregnancy affect maternal and infant health and development?.” Child Development Perspectives (2024).

Berger, Lawrence M., Christine Durrance, Deborah Ehrenthal, HeeJin Kim, Hsiang-Hui Kuo, and Jessica Pac. “Prenatal opioid exposure by likelihood of exposure and risk to prenatal development: Medicaid-covered births in Wisconsin, 2010–2019. Science Advances 10, no. 19 (2024): eadg9674.

Ehrenthal, Deborah B., Yi Wang, Jessica Pac, Christine Piette Durrance, Russell S. Kirby, and Lawrence M. Berger. “Trends in prenatal prescription opioid use among Medicaid beneficiaries in Wisconsin, 2010–2019. Journal of Perinatology (2024): 1-8.

Pac, Jessica, and Lawrence M. Berger. “Quasi‐experimental evidence on the employment effects of the 2021 fully refundable monthly child tax credit.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 43, no. 1 (2024): 192-213.