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Meet the Faculty

Angela Hawken, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Office: School of Public Policy (SPP)
Phone: (310) 506-7608
Fax: (310) 506-7494
E-mail: angela.hawken@pepperdine.edu

• Ph.D., Pardee RAND Graduate School
• M.Phil., RAND Graduate School
• M.A., B.Comm., University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Angela Hawken, PhD is Assistant Professor of Economics and Policy Analysis at the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. She is originally from South Africa, where she taught undergraduate and graduate econometrics and microeconomics before moving to the United States in 1998 to complete a Ph.D. in policy analysis at the RAND Graduate School. She teaches graduate classes in research methods, statistics, applied methods for policy analysis, crime, and social policy. Hawken's research interests are primarily in illicit drugs, crime, and corruption. At RAND, Hawken conducted research on early education, sentencing, and tort reform. Hawken conducted the statewide cost-benefit analysis of California's Proposition 36, and is the Principal Investigator of the randomized controlled trial of Hawaii's swift-and-certain-sanctions model (HOPE), with funding from the Smith Richardson Foundation and the National Institute of Justice. Hawken, with co-investigator Mark Kleiman of UCLA, will release study findings on the HOPE project in April 2009. Her ongoing international research includes a study of methadone delivery in the country of Georgia, with funding from the Soros Foundation, and she is developing measurement instruments to study corruption and gender issues in Afghanistan (for the UN Development Program) and the Asia-Pacific region (for the UN regional office). Hawken has lived and worked in South Africa, the United States, Georgia, and Afghanistan.

Courses:

• MPP 603 Applied Research Methods in Public Policy
• MPP 627 Seminar in Economic Policies: Criminal Justice
• MPP 627 Seminar in Economic Policies: Social Policy
• MPP 627 Seminar in Economic Policies: International Aid
• MPP 627 Seminar in Economic Policies: Applied Methods

Academic Interests:

• AIDS
• Childcare
• Civil and Criminal Justice
• Econometrics
• Economics
• Education
• Healthcare Economics and Policy
• Policy Analysis
• Research Methods
• Statistics