Samuel L. Myers, Jr., PhD, specializes in the use of applied econometric techniques to examine racial disparities in crime, to detect illegal discrimination in home mortgage lending and consumer credit markets, to assess the impacts of welfare on family stability to evaluate the effectiveness of government transfers in reducing poverty, and to detect disparities and discrimination in government contracting. He is an expert on conducting disparity studies for state and local governments and analyzes race-neutral public procurement and contracting policies. He has served as an expert witness in the ground-breaking federal cases of GEOD v. New Jersey Transit (3rd Circuit Court of Appeals) and Geyer v. MnDOT (8th Circuit Court of Appeals).
National Advisory Committee
Samuel L. Myers, Jr., PhD
- National Advisory Committee Member, HPRS; Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
