Ingrid Ellen

Ingrid Ellen


Faculty Director

Ingrid Gould Ellen is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at New York University’s Wagner School and Faculty Director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Her research centers on neighborhoods, housing, and residential segregation. Professor Ellen is the co-editor of The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates About Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity (Columbia University Press, 2018). She is also the author of Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration (Harvard University Press, 2000) and has been published in such journals as Urban Studies, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, and Housing Policy Debate.  She is currently undertaking a national study of economic change in U.S. neighborhoods.  In addition, she is studying the interaction between investments in schools and subsidized housing and examining why some parcels of land remain underdeveloped, even in hot markets.  Professor Ellen teaches courses in microeconomics, urban economics, and urban policy research.  Before coming to NYU, Professor Ellen held visiting positions at the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution.  She attended Harvard University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics, an M.P.P., and a Ph.D. in public policy.

Technical Skills: Data management, Econometrics