Matthew Jacob

Matthew Jacob is a Linda G. Hammett Ory fellow at EdRedesign and is a Ph.D. student in Public Policy at Harvard University in the Economics track. His research interests are around intergenerational mobility and inequality, with a particular focus on low-income housing, the causal effects of place and the role of social capital. In a pair of publications in Nature, Matthew and his co-authors show that children who grow up in communities with more cross-class interaction are much more likely to rise out of poverty.  Prior to graduate school, Matthew was a Predoctoral Fellow at Opportunity Insights and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and received his BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the Australian National University.