Bradley Hardy

Bradley Hardy is a Distinguished Professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. He is also a nonresident senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. Professor Hardy’s research examines intra and inter-generational economic outcomes across three overlapping themes: income and consumption volatility among low-income and disadvantaged families, analysis of U.S. income transfer policies and programs for low-income families, and the role of race and place as determinants of economic and policy outcomes. He serves as a research affiliate of the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty, the Columbia University Center on Poverty and Social Policy, the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, and the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis. At Georgetown, he teaches courses on microeconomics and public finance.