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Philip M. Gleason
Senior Fellow
Philip Gleason, a senior fellow at Mathematica, is an expert in evaluation design and random assignment. He has directed many studies related to education initiatives and federal nutrition programs.
Gleason oversees a rigorous lottery-based experimental evaluation of charter schools for the U.S. Department of Education and directs an evaluation of KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) for the KIPP Foundation. He is also leading a methodological study examining whether experimental impact estimates can be replicated using a regression discontinuity design.
In recent years, he has played a key role in research examining administrative and nutrition-related aspects of the school meal programs, including the relationship between school meal participation and childhood obesity, examined the dynamics of participation in the Food Stamp Program, and studied dropout prevention programs.
Gleason publishes regularly in peer-reviewed journals, with recent articles appearing in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Evaluation Review, Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Journal of Agricultural Economics, and Demography. He is also on the board of editors of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association and authored a chapter in Race, Poverty, and Domestic Policy, a book from Yale University Press. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Evaluation design and random assignment
- Editorial board, Journal of the American Dietetic Association
- Visiting Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- "Using State Tests in Education Experiments: A Discussion of the Issues" (November 2009)
- "Publishing Nutrition Research: A Review of Epidemiologic Methods." Journal of the American Dietetic Association (October 2009)
- "Association Between School Food Environment and Practices and Body Mass Index of US Public School Children." Journal of the American Dietetic Association (February 2009)