Matt UnrathAssistant Professor, University of Southern California
areas of expertise
- Poverty and inequality
- Tax policy
- Labor and employment
- Program evaluation
education
- PhD, Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
- MPP, University of California, Berkeley
- BA, International Studies, Boston College
Matt Unrath is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Previously, he was an economist and branch chief for income statistics at the US Census Bureau. He received his PhD in Public Policy from UC Berkeley, and he was a Research Fellow at the California Policy Lab between 2017 and 2020. He studies how households interact with transfer policies and means-tested programs. At CPL, Matt worked closely with the California Department of Social Services on a number of projects focused on improving the social safety net in California.