Jason Richwine

Jason Richwine, Ph.D., conducts quantitative analyses on a wide variety of social policy issues, among them immigration, education, welfare and family structure.

Richwine, The Heritage Foundation’s senior policy analyst in empirical studies, works in the think tank’s Center for Data Analysis. Created in 1997, CDA provides the public policy community with state-of-the-art modeling, database products and research assistance.

CDA’s team maintains scores of databases to support strategic research; provides confidential reviews of legislation for members of Congress and the White House; and supplies data and analysis for news organizations.

Among agencies and programs in the databases are the Census Bureau, Internal Revenue Service, Social Security, Medicare and Department of Education. CDA’s peer-reviewed analytical models lend insight to how policy changes affect social and economic systems.

Richwine’s analysis and articles have appeared in major newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and Dallas Morning News and in political journals such as National Review and The American Spectator.

Richwine, who joined Heritage in March 2010, previously worked at the American Enterprise Institute on a dissertation fellowship. He received his doctorate in public policy in 2009 from Harvard University. He holds bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and political science from American University.

He lives with his wife and son in Dunkirk, Md., but always will be a Philadelphian at heart.

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