Pauline Leung is a public and labor economist whose research focuses on the design of social and labor market policies for economically vulnerable populations. Her work has been published in leading economics journals and supported by the William T. Grant Foundation and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. She was selected for the 2022-2023 Cornell Center for Social Sciences fellowship program to study the long-term effects of welfare-to-work policies.

Professor Leung received her B.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California Berkeley and Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.

About Pauline Leung