Kaitlyn M. Sims

2025-12-02 09:05:21

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Denver
Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies

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Dr. Sims is an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver's Scrivner Institute for Public Policy. Her mixed-methods research agenda is informed by her training as an applied economist. Dr. Sims' work is at the intersection of public health, the economics of violence, and environmental health hazards. Her current book project is a public policy analysis of domestic violence shelters. She uses data in all scales, including original data collection, "big" data and spatial analysis, program evaluation, and qualitative interviews. Dr. Sims has been published in such venues as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Journal of Public Health, Punishment & Society, and Critical Social Policy.

Experience

–present Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Denver

Education

2022 University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD/Agricultural and Applied Economics
2019 University of Wisconsin-Madison, MSc/Agricultural and Applied Economics

Publications

2024 (Dis)honorably discharged: Identifying policy gaps in military-civilian reintegration, Health Affairs Scholar
2024 Impacts of the US EITC program on domestic violence, Review of Economics of the Household
2023 The Prison Bust: Mapping U.S. Prison Closures and their Local Economic Effects, Punishment & Society
2023 Barriers to Safe and Secure Housing in the Section 8 Voucher Program Post-Dobbs?, Critical Social Policy
2023 From philosophy to practice: Designing a multi-method, multi-stage program evaluation of the Wisconsin Domestic Violence Housing First pilot program., INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
2023 Agricultural intensification and childhood cancer in Brazil., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2022 Productive cattle ranches reduce carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon, Environmental Research Letters
2021 Prisons and COVID-19 spread in the United States., American Journal of Public Health

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