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Michael G Mueller-Smith
Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
Research Interests:
Mike Mueller-Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the ISR Population Studies Center. His research focuses on measuring the scope and prevalence of the criminal justice system in the U.S. as well as its broadly defined impact on the population. He is the Director of the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS), a data infrastructure project jointly held with the U.S. Census Bureau that seeks to collect and link extensive amounts of criminal justice microdata with social and economic data held at the Census Bureau. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 2015, and completed a NICHD Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Michigan’s Population Studies Center between 2015-2017.
Select Projects
- New Methods to Support Census Bureau Record Linkage
- Children and the US Justice System
- Reintegration Policies, the Safety Net, and Spillover Impacts of Justice Involvement
- Criminal Justice Administrative Records System: Public Reporting and Fellowship Competition
- COVID-19:Statistical analysis of exclusions from the U.S. SBA Payment Protection Program during COVID-19
- Strengthening the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System to address limitations in data integration between criminal justice and public health
- RIDIR: Developing and Deploying the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System
- Effects of Financial Sanctions in the Criminal Justice System
- Local Jail Reporting Program (LJRP) Pilot Test
Select Publications
- Finlay, Keith, Michael G Mueller-Smith, Street, Brittany. 2023. Children’s Indirect Exposure to the U.S. Justice System: Evidence From Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 138(4):2181-2224.
- Mueller-Smith,Michael G, Aldén, Lina , Edlund, Lena , Hammarstedt, Mats . 2015. Effect of Registered Partnership on Labor Earnings and Fertility for Same-Sex Couples: Evidence From Swedish Register Data. Demography 52(4):1243-1268.