Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy
Dr. Lawler is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Public Administration and Policy. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Vanderbilt University in August 2018. Dr. Lawler’s research is primarily in the fields of health economics, applied microeconomics, and development economics. Her research focuses on the effects of public policies on maternal and child health, both in the United States and in the developing world. Her recent work focuses on the effects of vaccination policy in the United States. Dr. Lawler’s work has been published or accepted at the Journal of Health Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and the American Journal of Health Economics, and she was recently awarded the 2018 Student Paper Award by the American Society of Health Economists for her paper “Effectiveness of Vaccination Recommendations versus Mandates: Evidence from the hepatitis A vaccine.”
