Jonah Deutsch

Jonah Deutsch specializes in behavioral interventions, evaluation design, and quantitative methods to evaluate the impacts of labor and education programs. His expertise includes designing behavioral interventions, evaluating those interventions, and developing novel evaluation methods.

Deutsch currently contributes to three projects for the U.S. Department of Labor that involve designing, conducting, and evaluating behavioral interventions. One project seeks to improve participation in the Trade Adjustment Assistance program, another involves compliance assistance for employers with the Wage and Hour Division, and the third includes three separate behavioral trials across different agencies. In a separate, recent project, Deutsch designed and analyzed a nationwide, multiphase, rapid-cycle experiment of a behavioral intervention that he helped develop with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Deutsch develops new quantitative techniques to better understand how program effects operate, and builds software tools to implement them, with funding from private foundations and the National Science Foundation. He is deploying these methods in an analysis of the Job Corps program. He also leads the design and analysis of a quasi-experimental evaluation of a new graduate school of education in New York City. Deutsch has experience designing and estimating teacher value-added models for several studies.

Before joining Mathematica, Deutsch earned a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Chicago.