Joshua Haimson is responsible for developing and overseeing Mathematica’s human service projects for foundations and non-profits. These projects span a wide variety of topics and programs in the U.S. including education, early childhood, youth, workforce, family support, child welfare, nutrition, housing, and criminal justice. They include projects supporting strategic planning; monitoring, evaluation, and learning; performance measurement; data analytics; and technical assistance.
Haimson is also a senior researcher specializing in education projects. He has helped design and lead studies focused on many topics, including college and career readiness, dropout prevention, charter schools, extended learning time, summer learning programs, and special education. He currently directs a project providing technical support to the 10 Regional Education Labs; for that project he leads a team of about 20 staff that reviews all the labs’ study proposals and reports. Haimson also directed the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012, which included an analysis of the challenges faced by students with disabilities as they complete and leave high school, drawing on surveys of a nationally representative sample of youth and parents. He directed the National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness, which evaluated the impact of CMOs on student achievement and identified promising practices associated with positive impacts. He also led an analysis of the value of various academic and non-academic competencies.
Haimson earned a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.
Policymakers’ focus on clarifying the rigor of evidence on impacts is very helpful, but has sometimes come at the expense of considering other important characteristics of useful and timely evidence.
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