James Sullivan

Professor of Economics and Gilbert F. Schaefer College Chair at University Of Notre Dame

Website: https://www3.nd.edu/~jsulliv4/

James Sullivan is a professor of economics and Gilbert F. Schaefer College Chair at the University of Notre Dame. He has been a visiting scholar at the National Poverty Center and a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Harris School. His research examines the consumption, saving, and borrowing behavior of poor households, and how welfare and tax policy affects the well-being of the poor. In 2012, with fellow Notre Dame Professor William Evans, Professor Sullivan founded the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO). LEO is a research center that works with service providers to identify effective and replicable solutions to reduce poverty in America. Sullivan received his bachelors degree from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University.