Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

Rodney Andrews

Scholar, The Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program

Rodney Andrews received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of
Michigan in 2007. His dissertation evaluated the impact of legal
challenges to affirmative action and the resulting policy responses to
minority educational outcomes. Dr. Andrews looks at both Texas' Top Ten
Percent rule, the policy response to the Hopwood v. Texas decision,
and at the changes in applications and admissions at the University of
Michigan due to the changes brought on by the United States Supreme
Court decisions in Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger. As
a Scholar, he plans to examine the impact of early-onset psychiatric
disorders on various labor market outcomes of African-Americans and
Caribbean-Americans. The research is intended to shed light on yet
another aspect of health disparities.