Nicholas Croce

Nicholas Croce’s work focuses on analyzing issues of inequality and evaluating promising policy solutions.

At Mathematica, Croce works across focus areas addressing the needs of children, youth, and families, and on employment and education projects, specifically in the areas of homelessness, disaster recovery, childhood well-being and nutrition, and civic engagement. Croce’s work on the AmeriCorps LEARNS project for the AmeriCorps Office of Research and Evaluation translates research findings into accessible, targeted language and infographics. For a foundation client, Croce systematically reviews the latest empirical research on policy interventions to address the housing crisis. Informed by his professional experience in emergency management, Croce co-authored a report on disaster displacement for the Administration for Children and Families. Drawing on his academic expertise, Croce recently co-authored Mathematica’s comment to the Office of Science and Technology Policy on the uses of artificial intelligence.

Croce is a Ph.D. candidate in social science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He holds an M.P.P. in social policy from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and an M.A. in sociology from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He has worked at public and nonprofit institutions including the American Red Cross, New York Disaster Interfaith Services, the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights, and the U.S. Government Accountability Office. His academic research is interdisciplinary and has examined the division of the labor market, employment and gig work, technology and democracy, and Progressive Era unemployment programs. Improving public well-being is important to Croce because, as a first-generation college graduate, he has witnessed how public policy impacts economic stability and opportunity.