As of latest THP publication:
Bradley Hardy is a nonresident senior fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings and an associate professor of public policy at Georgetown University. He serves as a research affiliate of the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty, the Columbia University Center on Poverty and Social Policy, the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, and the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis.
Hardy’s research examines intra and inter-generational economic outcomes across three overlapping themes: income and consumption volatility among low-income and disadvantaged families, analysis of U.S. income transfer policies and programs for low-income families, and the role of race and place as determinants of economic and policy outcomes. He explores the factors that shape the well-being of families and children—including parental and spatial economic conditions, public policies, and varying forms of structural social and economic inequality. Throughout his work, he consider how safety net programs can act as buffers against exposure to economic risk. Within the school, he teaches courses on microeconomics and public finance. He has provided expert testimony for congress and local governmental commissions, as well as commentary for news and media outlets, including CNBC, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, and Vox.
Hardy’s professional activities include membership on the American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics, and elected membership in the National Academy of Social Insurance. He is a coeditor at Contemporary Economic Policy, and recently served on a National Academies of Science panel focused on studying improvements to the Supplemental Poverty Measure, and is currently serving on a separate National Academies of Science panel assessing federal policy impacts on child poverty in 2021. Prior to joining Georgetown, Hardy was a faculty member in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University, where he held leadership roles as department chair and director of the master of public policy program.
