Leonard Lopoo

Director, Center for Policy Research
Director, Maxwell X Lab
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Degree

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001

Specialties

Child and family policy, economic demography

Courses

Fall 2018

PAI 721.001 Introduction to Statistics, Tu/Th 9:30-10:50, 110 Maxwell Hall

Biography

Leonard M. Lopoo is a Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Director of the Center for Policy Research, and the Director and co-founder of the Maxwell X Lab at Syracuse University. Lopoo received his Ph.D. from the Harris School at the University of Chicago and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Lopoo’s research interests primarily involve the family: fertility, marriage, maternal employment, and the public policies designed to assist the low-income population. He has published in Demography, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Human Resources, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and the Journal of Public Economics, among many others. Lopoo is currently the social policy co-editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, a post he has held since 2008. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his research and teaching, including the Birkhead-Burkhead Teaching Excellence Award, a Meredith Professors Recognition Award, and the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize. Full Biography

Publications

Selected Papers

Research Interests

Child and family policy

Economic demography