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Anne Morrison Piehl is James Cullen Endowed Chair in Economics in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University – New Brunswick and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is a member of the Rutgers Program in Criminal Justice, which she directed from 2008-13. Piehl spent the early part of her career on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She has held visiting positions at the University of Michigan School of Law, Princeton University, and the University of California – Berkeley. She received her A.B. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Princeton University, both in economics.

Piehl’s research on the economics of crime and criminal justice has been published widely in economics, law, public policy, and criminology. Her research contributions fall into the substantive areas of immigration, youth homicide, corrections, and criminal sentencing. She has contributed to public policy in these areas with work for the National Academy of Sciences in several roles, including as a member of the standing Committee on Law and Justice (2011-18), and has testified on her research before the United States Sentencing Commission and the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Immigration. At the state level, she served on the New Jersey Commission on Government Efficiency and Reform (GEAR) Corrections/Sentencing Task Force and supported a similar effort in Massachusetts. In recognition of her contributions to criminal justice policy and practice, Piehl was awarded the Rutgers College Class of '62 Presidential Public Service Award.