David C. Ribar

David C. Ribar, the Associate Dean for Research, is an applied micro-economist and an interdisciplinarily engaged scholar whose current research focuses on child care, education, evaluating programs to alleviate economic disadvantage, and measuring and modeling well-being in many different contexts.

He is the Associate Dean for Research at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, a professor in the Department of Economics, and a fellow with the Georgia Policy Labs. He has also researched the causes and consequences of economic disadvantage, homelessness, teenage fertility, the economic motivations behind public and private transfers, people’s time use, and other topics.  He has published in the American Economic Review, American Sociological Review, Journal of Political Economy, Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Demography, and other journals.

Grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Administration for Children and Families, the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, the Australian Research Council, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Ascendium Education Group, the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, and the W. T. Grant Foundation have supported his research. He has an extensive record of collaborative, actionable research with government agencies, non-profit organizations, and businesses. He is an associate editor at the Journal of Population Economics and the Review of Economics of the Household, a senior associate editor of the Southern Economic Journal, a member of the editorial board of Social Service Review, and a research fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics.