Jacob Vigdor is a professor of public policy and economics at Duke University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and external fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration. His research interests are in the broad areas of education policy, housing policy, immigration policy, and political economy. Vigdor received a BS in policy analysis from Cornell University in 1994 and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1999.