Summary
Dr. Reardon is a Director at Resolution Economics LLC. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and has a broad range of research experience in survey research methodology, labor economics, and applied microeconomics.

Experience
Prior to joining Resolution Economics, she was an Economist at the RAND Corporation, a non-profit, non-partisan think tank in Santa Monica, California. Before that, she was an economist at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica, California. Dr. Reardon has significant experience designing and conducting empirical studies using survey data and large public and private databases. She has designed and analyzed surveys on a wide variety of topics. She has filed expert declarations reviewing the quality of survey data on missed meals and rest breaks, overtime and off-the-clock work and developing a probability sample methodology for taking depositions. She has conducted statistical analyses of databases often used for comparability purposes, such as Census data, the Current Population Survey, the Economic Census, County Business Patterns, and government procurement contract data. She has directed studies evaluating the economic incentives embedded in the contracting, organizational, and regulatory practices of public systems. Other work analyzed the availability and utilization of women-owned businesses by the federal government. Her research on racial wage inequality was published in The Journal of Human Resources. Her work has also been published as monographs by RAND. She has presented her research at the Eastern and Western Economic Association meetings and in front of various policy audiences. She has taught business economics at Loyola Marymount Business School and statistics and econometrics in the undergraduate economics department at UCLA.