Hilary Hoynes

Hilary Williamson Hoynes
Born	August 31, 1961
Citizenship	United States
Fields	Economics
Institutions	UC Davis UC Berkeley
Alma mater	Colby College Stanford University
Notable awards	Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, 2014
Website https://gspp.berkeley.edu/directories/faculty/hilary-hoynes

Hilary Hoynes is an economist and Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. She is a co-editor of the American Economic Review. She studies the impact of tax and transfer programs on low-income families, particularly single parent families. She was the 2014 winner of the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.

Her research has covered every major government anti-poverty program in the United States, including The Earned Income Tax Credit, Food Stamps, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and has examined outcomes such as labor supply, employment, marriage, divorce, infant health, and education. Hoyes has research affiliations at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the University of California, Davis Center for Poverty Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She serves on the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program and the Advisory Committee for the National Science Foundation's Directorate for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. In 2016 Hoynes was appointed as a member of the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking.