Sarah Strochak

About

Sarah Strochak is an Assistant Professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She completed her Ph.D. in Public Policy at NYU Wagner, where she was a doctoral fellow at the NYU Furman Center. Prior to joining UW, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Eviction Lab at Princeton University.

Her research interests include urban economics, public economics, and housing policy. She is interested in evaluating public programs across multiple dimensions, including program take-up and administration, outcomes for participants, and economic outcomes more broadly.

Her current work examines the Housing Choice Voucher program. She uses novel administrative data to measure program take-up, evaluate programmatic changes, and study outcomes for tenants.

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Education

• Ph.D., Public Policy, New York University
• B.A., Economics, University of California, Berkeley