Jacob Vigdor
Professor, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance
University of Washington
Tel: 206-616-4436 Box: 353055
website
CSDE Research Areas:
- Demographic Measurements and Methods
- Migration and Settlement
In the News:
- CSDE at PAA 2017 (4/18/2017)
- CSDE Fellow Spotlight: Hilary Wething (1/10/2020)
- Jacob Vigdor and Mark Long Evaluate Whether Seattle’s Minimum Wage Works (7/13/2017)
- Jacob Vigdor Comments on Immigration for The New York Times (10/28/2019)
- Jacob Vigdor Discusses Challenges for Workers Who May Lose Their Jobs to Automation (3/5/2018)
- Jacob Vigdor Explains How Deportations Could Impact Regional Economies (4/3/2017)
- Jacob Vigdor Explains Seattle’s Growing Pains to Q13 News (5/9/2017)
- Jacob Vigdor Interviewed About The Potential Impact of Washington’s I-1433 (10/6/2016)
- Jacob Vigdor on Immigration Trends and the Border Wall (2/7/2017)
- Jake Vigdor Discusses Seattle’s Unique Work Culture and Amazon’s HQ2 (10/24/2017)
- Jennifer Otten, Jake Vigdor, and Mark Long Analyze Effects of Minimum Wage on Seattle Food Prices (9/26/2017)
- Long, Vigdor, Wething, and Co-authors Publish New Working Paper on Boundary Discontinuity Methods (6/23/2022)
Jacob Vigdor is a Professor at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. He has maintained a program of active research in subjects related to population studies–spanning economics, education, immigration and ethnicity, political economy, and race and inequality–since receiving graduate training at Harvard 1994-1999. His program of research has resulted in widely-cited peer-reviewed articles on residential segregation, immigration, and educational disparities across demographic groups. Vigdor’s 2010 book manuscript on immigration (From Immigrants to Americans) received the IPUMS research award from the Minnesota Population Center. While on the faculty at Duke University (1999-2014), he was a faculty affiliate of the Duke Population Research Institute and served as the director of Duke’s PhD program in public policy for four years. As director of the Seattle Minimum Wage Study he is leading a multi-disciplinary, multi-method effort to infer the impact of the City’s minimum wage ordinance on population-level labor market indicators and household well-being.