Ron Haskins is an American political scientist, focusing on several political topic issues, currently the Cabot Family Chair at Brookings Institution and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He won a Daniel Patrick Moynihan prize with Isabel Sawhill.

Life He graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology in 1975. He served on the staff of the House Ways and Means Committee, and presidential Senior Advisor for Welfare Policy.

Works Show Me the Evidence: Obama's Fight for Rigor and Evidence in Social Policy Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2015. (With Greg Margolis.) , Work over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law Washington : Brookings Institution Press, 2007. ,

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