Carolyn J. Hill is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown. Her research is driven by questions of whether and why public programs are effective, and how they can be improved. She has pursued these questions through three main research initiatives: developing an overarching framework for accumulating empirical evidence about public management and program effectiveness; conducting empirical analyses of specific aspects of public programs and management in areas of education, health, and human services; and analyzing methods and measurement issues that arise in the evaluation of public programs and management.

Her work has been published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and other journals. Her book, Improving Governance: A New Logic for Empirical Research (with Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., and Carolyn J. Heinrich) was published by Georgetown University Press (2001). Her forthcoming public management textbook, Public Management: A Three-Dimensional Approach (with Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.) will be published by CQ Press; and a forthcoming book on family structure and young adult outcomes, Against the Tide: Household Structure, Opportunities, and Outcomes among White and Minority Youth (with Harry J. Holzer) will be published by the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

At GPPI, Carolyn teaches Statistical Methods for Policy Analysis, Regression Methods for Policy Analysis, and Public Management.