Quick Facts
Biography
Jeffrey Richard Kling is associate director for economic analysis at the Congressional Budget Office. Kling is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a senior investigator for the long-term evaluation of the Moving to Opportunity randomized housing mobility experiment.
Career
He previously served as deputy director of the Economic Studies Program and Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution (2005–09). He also previously served as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (1998–2005), Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Labor (1993), and assistant to the Chief Economist at The World Bank (1992–93).
Selected bibliography
Books
- Kling, Jeffrey R.; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Congdon, William J. (2012). Policy and choice: public finance through the lens of behavioral economics. Washington: Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 9780815722588.
Papers
- Kling, Jeffrey R.; Katz, Lawrence F.; Ludwig, Jens (September 2004). "Neighborhood effects on crime for female and male youth: evidence from a randomized housing voucher experiment". NBER Working Paper. National Bureau of Economic Research. 10777.