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Senior Fellow and Deputy Director

Jeffrey R. Kling

Jeffrey R. Kling

Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Economic Studies

Economist Jeffrey Kling’s current projects include unemployment insurance, Medicare prescription drug insurance, and other aspects of social insurance. He is the director of the Policy Evaluation Project, which assists in the government and industry testing of policy innovations.



Expertise

Economics; social policy; poverty in the United States; government expenditure programs

Background

Past Positions
Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University (1998-2005)

Education

Ph.D. (1998), Massachusetts Institution of Technology; A.B. (1992), Harvard University

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Q&A with Jeff Kling

Obama's Economic Priorities

President-elect Obama's first press conference was on the economy. Jeff Kling commented on Obama’s address saying the nation needs two rounds of stimulus to kick-start the economy—the first to stem recent job losses and help homeowners, and then to focus on longer-term growth.

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