David Greenberg

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About David Greenberg

David Greenberg is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He is a labor economist and cost-benefit analyst who received his PhD at MIT. Much of his research focuses on the evaluation of government programs. Before coming to UMBC, he worked for the Rand Corporation, SRI International, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In recent years, Professor Greenberg has been a visitor for a year or longer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; at the Budapest University of Economic Science; and at the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University, the Policy Studies Institute at Westminster University, and the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, all of which are in England. He is a long time consultant to MDRC, Abt Associates, and other research organizations. David Greenberg has published widely on social experimentation, cost and cost-benefit analysis, employment, training programs, evaluation, and other topics. He is co-editor of the Randomized Social Experiments Abstract, which is published weekly by the Social Science Research Network. With his co-authors, he has written five editions of a widely used textbook on cost-benefit analysis, which is published by the Cambridge University Press. Specialties: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Social Experimentation, Labor Economics