Public Policy
The Public Policy faculty at UCLA conduct research on a wide range of public policy issues and questions. Faculty collaborate with colleagues and students across the many professional schools and academic departments of UCLA. UCLA has one of the highest faculty productivity levels of any university in the country, with numerous Nobel Prize winners, MacArthur Foundation Fellows and National Academy of Science members.
UCLA Luskin Public Policy faculty regularly publish in the very top journals in a wide range of fields that include Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Public Policy, Science and Medicine. These journals include the American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, JAMA, JPAM, Nature, PNAS, Quarterly Journal of Economics and Science, among others. Faculty also provide extensive government service. Recent examples include serving as the Chief Economist of the Office of Management and Budget and as a member of the Council of Economic Advisors to the President, and testifying in front of the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, California State Senate and California State Assembly. Faculty also regularly provide advice and consultation to federal, state and local government officials.
Faculty also take advantage of the vast resources available at UCLA and the UC system more broadly. For example, the offices for the California Center for Population Research (CCPR), California Policy Lab (CPL), and the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) are all in the same building as the department.
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