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 codirector 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, where she served as research associate and deputy project director for the Reading First Impact Study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education. Jacob has extensive experience conducting randomized trials and quasi-experimental evaluations of educational interventions, including studies of interventions designed to impact families, teachers, principals, schools and students and targeted to a wide range of outcomes involving early literacy skills, mathematics achievement, executive functioning, and health-related outcomes. Jacob received her PhD in public policy from the University of Chicago.

updated 2024