Robin Tepper Jacob

Robin Tepper Jacob is a research professor at the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research and an associate research professor by courtesy in the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan (U-M). She is also co-director of the Youth Policy Lab, a partnership between the Survey Research Center and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Prior to joining the faculty at U-M, she worked for Abt Associates Inc., where she served as research associate and deputy project director for the Reading First Impact Study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Jacob has 15 years of experience conducting randomized trials and quasi-experimental evaluations of educational interventions, in a variety of different contexts; including studies of interventions that were designed to impact families, teachers, principals, schools and students and that targeted a wide range of outcomes involving early literacy skills, mathematics achievement, executive functioning, and health related outcomes. With considerable expertise in survey design and implementation and the use of quasi-experimental methods for program evaluation, she has further conducted evaluations of federal initiatives, programs developed by nonprofit organizations, as well as those developed by for-profit service providers. Dr. Jacob earned her PhD in public policy from the University of Chicago.

updated 2024