Jeffrey Smith

My background, expertise and substantive interests fit well with the ambitions of Wisconsin’s Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE), and my work is especially related to the Demography of Inequality. My large body of work on both experimental and non-experimental methods for estimating the impacts of interventions adds to the disciplinary and methodological diversity of the center faculty. My work includes studies on experimental design and interpretation, on the identification and interpretation of heterogeneous treatment effects, on propensity score matching and other matching and weighting methods for the estimation of causal effects, and on regression discontinuity designs. My substantive interests in the evaluation of government programs, specifically active labor market programs, and in the labor market effects of college quality and college match, nicely complement the interests of others in the center.

CDE Research Area Affiliation:

Demography of Inequality

Selected Publication:

Andersson, Fredrik, Harry J. Holzer, Julia I. Lane, David Rosenblum, and Jeffrey Smith. “Does Federally Funded Job Training Work?: Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms.” Journal of Human Resources 59, no. 4 (2024): 1244-1283.