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Michael Goodman
Associate Professor / Chairperson, Public Policy
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Professor Goodman joins the Department of Public Policy after serving for the past eight years as the Director of Economic and Public Policy Research at the UMass Donahue Institute, the public service, outreach and economic development arm of the five campus University of Massachusetts system.
Dr. Goodman has authored or co-authored over two dozen professional publications on a wide range of public policy relevant issues including regional economic development and housing policy as well as demographic and other applied social science research topics. He has supported this research by generating over $4 million in external grant and contract funding from a diverse array of public and private sources. A leading analyst of both the Massachusetts and the New England economies, Dr. Goodman is a three term past president of the New England Economic Partnership, a non-profit organization made up of leading regional analysts that produces semi-annual economic forecasts of the economic outlook for each of the six New England states. He currently serves as Co-Editor editor of MassBenchmarks, the journal of the Massachusetts economy published by the UMass Donahue Institute in collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. |
