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CSDE Committees: Executive Committee Member

CSDE Research Areas:

• Demographic Measurements and Methods
• Health of People and Populations
• Wellbeing of Families and Households

In the News:

• Ali Rowhani-Rahbar and Heather Hill Awarded U01 to Investigate EITC and Violence Prevention (10/8/2018)
• Call for Articles: RSF Issue on Wealth Inequality and Child Development (5/13/2019)
• Congratulations to Participants in CSDE’s Grant Writing Workshop (9/26/2019)
• CSDE Affiliates Co-Author Two Minimum Wage Ordinance Studies (2/15/2019)
• CSDE Affiliates Hill, Otten, and Buszkiewicz Examine Health Effects of Minimum Wage Policy (2/15/2020)
• CSDE Fellow Spotlight: Hilary Wething (1/10/2020)
• Heather D. Hill and Scott W. Allard Selected as Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars (1/24/2020)
• Heather Hill Appointed to Population Health Initiative Executive Council (9/3/2019)
• Heather Hill Elected to the Policy Council of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (1/28/2019)
• Heather Hill Explains Why Income Disruptions May Impact Childhood Development (9/3/2018)
• Heather Hill, Jennifer Otten, and Noah Seixas Find High Rates of Depression Among Child Care Workers (7/17/2019)
• Hilary Wething and Heather Hill Highlighted for Work on Minimum-Wage Study (2/28/2017)
• Panel: COVID-19 & Child Wellbeing: A Multi-disciplinary Conversation about the Pandemic’s Effects on Children (11/30/2020)
• Population Research Discovery Seminar: Heather Hill (1/17/2017)
• Recent Article by Hill and Co-Author Describes Inequities in Childhood Wealth (10/29/2021)
• UW Public Policy Doctoral Student Nicole Kovski and CSDE Affiliates Hill, Mooney and Rowhani-Rahbar Co-author Study on Child Maltreatment (2/1/2021)
• Hill & Rowhani-Rahbar Publish Invited Commentary in JAMA Network Open (2/18/2022)
• Hill, Mooney, Rowhani-Rahbar, and Collaborators Study Effects of Child Tax Credits on Maltreatment in New Publication (6/13/2022)
• Rowhani-Rabhar, Hill, and Co-authors Publish Review Article on Income Support Policies and Firearm Violence (7/22/2022)
• Mooney, Hill, Rowhani-Rabhar, and Co-Authors Continue Exploring the Connection Between EITC and Firearm Violence in New Publication (9/2/2022)
• New article by Hill and Colleagues Examines EITC Payments and the Risk of Criminal Conviction During Adolescence (11/28/2022)
• CSDE Affiliates and Trainees Receive Population Health Initiative Pilot Research Awards (12/29/2022)
• Hill Receives Funding to Support New Study on Paid Family and Medical Leave (5/8/2023)

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Heather Hill is a Professor in the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. She has a BA (political science) from UW, a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University. Her research examines how public and workplace policies influence family economic circumstances and child well-being and development in low-income families. Hill conducts experimental, quasi-experimental and non-experimental research using both quantitative and qualitative data. Her training and research orientation are fundamentally multidisciplinary and population-focused. Her work has been published in top journals, including the Journal of Public Policy and Management, Demography, Work and Occupations, the American Journal of Epidemiology, and the Journal of Health Economics. At CSDE, Hill serves on the Executive Committee and as chair of the primary research area on the Wellbeing of Households and Families. She also serves on the Executive Council of the University of Washington’s Public Health Initiative.