Jennifer Robson

Associate Professor of Political Management, Kroeger College, Carleton University

bio:

Jennifer Robson is an Associate Professor of Political Management at Kroeger College, Carleton University, where she teaches courses in public policy and research methods  Prior to joining Carleton, Jennifer worked in the Government of Canada and she spent nearly a decade in the voluntary sector holding senior roles in policy development and research. Her research has included studies of social policies such as family benefits, education savings, poverty in Canada, wealth inequality, tax policy and the financial lives of low and modest income persons. Jennifer is a member of the Asset-Building Learning Exchange, a national cross-sectoral network engaged in the field of financial empowerment and is a Fellow at the Public Policy Forum.

Website: https://carleton.ca/politicalmanagement/people/jennifer-robson/

3 questions:

• What aspects of this research agenda are you most excited about?

I’m excited about the potential for this collaboration to contribute solutions to real policy problems faced by governments. That’s the kind of research I’m most passionate about.

• Of all the work you have done, what project / paper is your personal favourite and why?

This isn’t a fair question! They’re like children. I can’t pick a favorite.

•  Which is the one paper or book that you wish you had written (but have not)?

  Scarcity: Why having too little means so much  Mullainathan and Shafir because it offers compelling evidence and helps me theorize about the ways that low and modest income people will experience public and private sector programs and services that too often fail to take a human-centred design.