Ron Haskins is an American

political scientist Political science is the science, scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of politics, political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated c ...

, focusing in several political topic issues, currently the Cabot Family Chair at

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and an Elected Fellow of the

American Academy of Political and Social Science The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) was founded in 1889 to promote progress in the social sciences. Sparked by Professor Edmund J. James and drawing from members of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmo ...

. He won a Daniel Patrick Moynihan prize with

Isabel Sawhill Isabel Van Devanter Sawhill is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, where she formerly held the position of vice president and director of Economic Studies, among other duties. She has authored or co-authored many books, including ''Gene ...

Life

He graduated from

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with a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology in 1975. He served on the staff of the

House Ways and Means Committee The Committee on Ways and Means is the chief tax-writing committee of the United States House of Representatives. The committee has jurisdiction over all taxation, tariffs, and other revenue-raising measures, as well as a number of other program ...

, and presidential Senior Advisor for Welfare Policy.

Works

*''Show Me the Evidence: Obama's Fight for Rigor and Evidence in Social Policy'' Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2015. (With Greg Margolis.) , *''Work over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law'' Washington : Brookings Institution Press, 2007. ,

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