Jennifer Doleac

Jennifer Doleac
Alma materWilliams College (BA)
Stanford University (MA, PhD)
Occupations
  • Economist
  • businesswoman
Academic background
Doctoral advisorCaroline Hoxby
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics
Crime and Discrimination
InstitutionsTexas A&M University
WebsiteOfficial website

Jennifer Doleac is an American economist and is the vice president of criminal justice at Arnold Ventures. She was previously an associate professor at Texas A&M, where she directed the Justice Tech Lab, was a research affiliate of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, and is on the board of editors of the Journal of Economic Literature. She also hosts the Probable Causation podcast. In October 2022, Vox named her to their "Future Perfect 50," a list of "scientists, thinkers, scholars, writers, and activists building a more perfect future," writing, "Doleac looks at criminal justice policy through the lens of causal factors on a society-wide level."