Janna E. Johnson Current Position Contact Information Past Positions Education Research Interests Awards and Honors Publications Assistant Professor, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Affiliate, Minnesota Population Center Member, Graduate Faculty, Population Studies Member, Graduate Faculty, Applied Economics August 2013-present University of Minnesota E-mail: jannaj[at]umn.edu Humphrey School of Public Affairs Phone: (612) 625-0813 301 19th Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55455 Postdoctoral Scholar, Academic Research Center, NORC/University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Sept 2012-July 2013 Ph.D., Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, 2012 A.B. Summa Cum Laude, Economics, Dartmouth College, 2006 Economic Demography, Population Measurement, Applied Econometrics, Impact Evaluation, Labor Economics, Public Economics RAND Summer Institute on Aging, Full Scholarship, 2012 Center on the Demography and Economics of Aging at NORC at the University of Chicago NIA Predoctoral Fellowship, 2011-2012 Distinction, Labor Econometrics field exam, James J. Heckman(chair), Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 2009 Harris School of Public Policy Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2007-2010 Lewis H. Haney Prize in Economics for the most outstanding senior thesis, Dartmouth College, 2006 Phi Beta Kappa, 2006 Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals Rural Economic Development in the United States: An Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture s Business and Industry Guaranteed Loan Program, Economic Development Quarterly, August 2009, 23(3) 229-241. 1 of 5
Other Publications Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participation during the economic recovery of 2003 to 2007, Focus, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring/Summer 2012, 29(1) 9-13. Funded Research Working Papers Work in Progress Co-Principal Investigator, Developing New Data on the Origins, Evolution, and Composition of Occupational Licensing Statutes and Procedures, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2015-2017. Co-Principal Investigator, The U.S. Labor Market, Economic Growth, and Social Mobility: The Role of Occupational Licensing. Smith Richardson Foundation, 2015-2017. Co-Principal Investigator, Explaining the Increase in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Caseloads During the Recovery of 2003-2007: Decomposing the Determinants of SNAP Caseload Levels, Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) RIDGE Center for National Food and Nutrition Assistance Research, 2010-2011. The Long-Run Health Consequences of Rural-Urban Migration (with E. Taylor) (formerly Does Moving Kill? The Effect of Migration on Older- Age Mortality ) Estimates and Implications of the U.S. Census Undercount of the Native- Born Population (with M. Kleiner) Understanding the Labor Market Returns to Mobility for Young Workers (with S. Schulhofer-Wohl) The Impact of Anti-Abortion Laws on Fertility in the Nineteenth-Century United States (with J. D. Hacker) Scholarly Presentations 2015 Minnesota Population Center Seminar Series, University of Minnesota. 2014 Inequality & Methods Seminar, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota. Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies Seminar, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. 2 of 5
2013 Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS) Health in Cities conference, University of Chicago. 2012 Workshop on the Economics & Biodemography of Aging & Health Care, University of Chicago. Workshop on Human Potential, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. Health and Social Policy Seminar, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago. Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame. 2011 USDA Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE) Conference. Presentations at Meetings 2017 The Impact of Anti-Abortion Laws on Fertility in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Population Association of America Understanding the Labor Market Returns to Mobility for Young Workers. American Economic Association 2016 Understanding the Labor Market Returns to Mobility for Young Workers. Population Association of America Annual Meetings & Association for Public Policy and Management American Economic Association 2015 The Long-Run Health Consequences of Rural-Urban Migration. Association for Public Policy and Management Population Association of America The Heterogeneous Long-Run Health Consequences of Rural-Urban Migration. American Economic Association 2014 Improving the Measurement of Gender and Racial Gaps in the STEM Workforce. Population Association of America Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Meetings. 3 of 5
2013 Improving the Measurement of Gender and Racial Gaps in the STEM Workforce. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Second Place Winner, Poster Competition. Does Moving Kill? The Effect of Migration on Older-Age Mortality. Estimates and Implications of the U.S. Census Undercount of the Native-Born Population. Population Association of America 2012 Estimates and Implications of the U.S. Census Undercount of the Native-Born Population. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Does Moving Kill? The Effect of Migration on Older-Age Mortality. Illinois Economic Association Annual Meeting. The Causal Impact on Mortality of Migration out of the Northern Great Plains. Population Association of America Economic Demography Workshop. Teaching Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Economics For Policy Analysis and Planning II Population Economics, Spring 2016 & 2017 Regression Analysis: Accelerated, Spring 2015, 2016, 2017 Economic Demography, Spring 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Applied Policy Analysis, Fall 2014 & 2016 Topics in Advanced Policy Methods: Econometrics for Program and Policy Evaluation, Fall 2013 CLEAR Initiative, The World Bank Technical Approaches for Conducting Impact Evaluations, Kampala, Uganda, Summer 2013 Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago Program Evaluation, Winter 2011 Program Evaluation, joint with Prof. Dan Black, Spring 2010 Mathematical Statistics for Public Policy I (TA), Prof. Wesley Yin, Fall 2008 Mathematical Statistics for Public Policy II (TA), Prof. Dan Black, Winter 2009 Public Policy for Physical Scientists (Special course with University of Chicago Departments of Physics and Astrophysics) (TA), Prof. Dan Black, Sept. 2009 Department of Economics, University of Chicago Analysis of Microeconomic Data I (TA), Prof. Jeffrey Grogger, Fall 2009 Analysis of Microeconomic Data II (TA), Prof. Dan Black and Prof. 4 of 5
James Heckman, Winter 2010 Analysis of Microeconomic Data III (TA), Prof. Robert LaLonde, Spring 2010 Service Referee, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Poverty University Member, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs PhD Committee, Service 2016-2019. Member, Minnesota Population Center Advisory Board (elected), 2013-2016. Dissertation Skills Memberships Essays on Economic Demography in the United States Dissertation committee: Dan Black (chair), Michal Engelman, Jeffrey Grogger, Robert LaLonde General qualifying fields: Microeconomics, Econometrics, Political Economy Substantive qualifying field: Labor Econometrics (with distinction) Languages: English (native), German (proficient) Computing: Stata, SAS, R American Economic Association Population Association of America Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management The Econometric Society 5 of 5