Director, The Texas Schools Project, University of Texas at Dallas

Director, The Bruton Center for Development Studies, University of Texas at Dallas

Associate Professor of Political Economy, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas

Ph.D., Public Policy, Harvard University

jargo@utdallas.edu

http://www.utdallas.edu/~jargo/

Areas of expertise: urban and suburban development, urban poverty, economic segregation, higher education

Biography

Paul A. Jargowsky received a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University in 1991 and is currently Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He is the director of the Texas Schools Project, which uses a longitudinal panel of administrative data from several public agencies to study educational attainment, college attendance, and labor market outcomes.

Dr. Jargowsky also directs the Bruton Center for Development Studies at UTD, a research center specializing in spatial aspects of social science research. His principal research interests are the geographic concentration of poverty, and residential segregation by race and class, and barriers to economic opportunity.  His widely-cited book, Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997) is a comprehensive examination of poverty at the neighborhood level in U.S. metropolitan areas between 1970 and 1990. It was named the "Best Book in Urban Affairs Published in 1997 or 1998" by the Urban Affairs Association. Jargowsky's current research examines the role of suburban development patterns on access to opportunity, methodological innovations in the measurement of segregation, and the impacts of Texas community colleges on educational attainment and labor market outcomes.

Jargowsky is responsible for the day to day direction of the Texas research of CALDER, including the process to approve new research projects and initiatives to expand the scope of the project to new substantive issues.