Jean Baldwin Grossman is an economist interested in identifying and refining programs, policies and practices that improve the lives of individuals living in under-resourced environments. She has led studies on social policy in a wide range of areas—education, health, employment and training, welfare, dropout prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, and youth programs. Her substantive specialty is the study of programs for children, youth, and young adults. Recently she has focused on studying the effects of youth employment programs, tutoring, school- and out-of-school-based education program, mentoring programs, and after-school programs.

She joined the Princeton faculty in 2000. Prior to that, she worked at two social policy research firms, starting at Mathematica Policy Research and later working as the Senior VP at Public/Private Ventures. In 2010-11, she was the Chief Evaluation Officer for the U.S. Department of Labor overseeing all the department’s program evaluations. She has a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T in 1980.