Bradley Hardy, Associate Professor, American University

Bradley Hardy is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy at American University, where he also serves as department chair. He is a nonresident senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, a research fellow with the Center for Household Financial Stability at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and a research affiliate of both the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty and the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research. His research interests lie within labor economics, with an emphasis on economic instability, intergenerational mobility, poverty policy, racial economic inequality, and socio-economic outcomes. Hardy examines trends and sources of income volatility and intergenerational mobility within the United States and also conducts research on the role of anti-poverty transfer programs such as SNAP food stamps, the earned income tax credit, and TANF. Hardy is a co-editor at Contemporary Economic Policy and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the Review of Black Political Economy.