Anne Piehl | |
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Born | Anne Morrison Piehl November 13, 1964 |
Education | Harvard University (A.B., 1986), Princeton University (Ph.D., 1994) |
Awards | The Rutgers College Class of 1962 Presidential Public Service Award (2015) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Criminology, economics |
Institutions | Rutgers University |
Thesis | Economic issues in crime policy (1994) |
Anne Morrison Piehl (born November 13, 1964) [1] is an American economist and criminologist. She is a professor of economics at Rutgers University, the director of Rutgers' Program in Criminal Justice, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. [2] She joined Rutgers as an associate professor in 2005, and became a full professor there in 2012. Also in 2012, she became a fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. [3] In 2020, she was named to the James Cullen Chair in Economics, where she will serve a five-year term. [4] She served on the New Jersey Committee on Government Efficiency and Reform Corrections/Sentencing Task Force, prepared expert testimony for the New Jersey Institute of Social Justice, and testified before Congress and the United States Sentencing Commission. [4] Her research interests include prisoner reentry programs [5] and prison violence. [6]