Robert Lerman

Dr. Robert I. Lerman is an Institute Fellow at Urban Institute, professor of economics at American University, and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany. He has published research and policy analyses on employment, income support, family structure, and youth development, especially as they affect low-income populations. Dr. Lerman has worked on reforming the nation's income maintenance programs and on youth employment policies for the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and the U.S. Department of Labor. He was one of the first scholars to examine the patterns and determinants of unwed fatherhood and to propose a youth apprenticeship strategy in the United States. He has testifed before congressional committees on youth apprenticeship, child support policies, and the information technology labor market. In 2009, Dr. Lerman and Stephanie Cellini published Demography, Education and the Work Force (Greenwood Press). Dr. Lerman earned his A.B. at Brandeis University and his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.