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Jeffrey R. Kling

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Jeffrey R. Kling
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materHarvard College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Economics, 1998[1]
Doctoral advisorJoshua Angrist[2]
Jerry A. Hausman[2]
Academic work
InstitutionsCongressional Budget Office
Website

Jeffrey Richard Kling is the research director at the Congressional Budget Office, and was previously the associate director for economic analysis. Kling is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research[3] and a senior investigator for the long-term evaluation of the Moving to Opportunity randomized housing mobility experiment.[4] As of 2025, he is a co-editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives

Career

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He previously served as deputy director of the Economic Studies Program and Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution (2005–09).[5] 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

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Books

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ https://users.nber.org/~kling/kling_cv.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  2. ^ a b Kling, Jeffrey Richard (1998). Identifying causal effects of public policies (Ph.D.). MIT. hdl:1721.1/10114.
  3. ^ "Research by Jeffrey Kling". NBER.org. Retrieved 2013-11-07.
  4. ^ "MTOresearch.org". MTOresearch.org. Retrieved 2013-11-07.
  5. ^ "Jeffrey R. Kling | Brookings Institution". Brookings.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-09-26. Retrieved 2013-11-07.