#  Scott Robert Winship 

 

 



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 (Sociology & Social Policy, June 2009)  
*Thesis Title:* Financial Jitters: Trends in Income Changes among Working-Age Adults  
*Committee:* Christopher Jencks (chair), Christopher Winship, William Julius Wilson  
*Initial Placement:* Research Manager, Economic Mobility Project, Pew Charitable Trusts  
*Current Position:* [Executive Director, United States Joint Economic Committee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/swinship/)

 Winship received a B.A. in Sociology and Urban Studies from Northwestern University in 1995, and an M.A. in Sociology and Ph.D. in Social Policy from Harvard University in 2005 and 2009 respectively where he was a fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. While working on a Ph.D. in Social Policy at Harvard, Winship took time off to serve as Managing Editor of [*The Democratic Strategist*](http://thedemocraticstrategist.org/), a website founded by political scientist Ruy Teixeira. This was followed by stops at [Third Way](http://www.thirdway.org/), a centrist think tank; the Pew Charitable Trusts, where he managed Pew’s Economic Mobility Project; the Brookings Institution; and the Manhattan Institute. Today, Scott is Project Director at the [U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee](https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/), and a [Contributor at *Forbes*](http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottwinship/#3696fb264197)*.* His main focus is on the JEC’s [Social Capital Project](https://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/socialcapitalproject?ID=1F27B7E7-6538-4A2D-8A77-538A47558C87), where, [as Annie Lowrey put it in *The Atlantic*](https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/what-if-politicians-studied-the-social-fabric-like-economists-studied-gdp/527976/), Scott and his colleagues attempt to study “the social fabric like economists \[study\] GDP.”



 

 

 





 

 

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