Prof. Dr. Debra Hevenstone
Profile
Prof. Dr. Debra Hevenstone Dozentin
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Contact hours
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday -
Address
Berner Fachhochschule
School of Social Work
Abteilung Soziale Systeme
Hallerstrasse 10
3012 Bern
Activities
Responsibilities
Research: comparative social policy, social insurance design, financing of social services, labor market integration
Teaching: Data & Statisics, Comparative Social Policy
Focus areas
Data and social services
Social policy design
Teaching
Degree programmes
BA, MA
Subjects
Social Policy, Data Analysis, Management
Research
Specialisations
Social service financing/contracts
Social insurance design
Gender & the labor market
Active labor market programs
Digitalization & data for practice
CV
Biography
- Debra's research focuses on social policy design related to public policy financing and labor market policy. She has a strong interest in administrative data, quantitative methods, and simulation.
Professional experience
- 2023 Visiting Professor Evans School, University of Washington
- 2017-present Professor Bern University of Applied Sciences
- 2011-2016 Senior Researcher University of Bern
- 2013-2016 Senior Researcher University of Zurich
- 2010 Visiting Researcher MDRC, New York
- 2009-2011 Research Economist Policy Studies Institute, London
- 2007-2009 Visiting Researcher ETH, Zurich
- 2008 Visiting Collaborator International Labor Organization, Geneva
- 2006-2009 Editorial Assistant Journal of Sociological Methodology
- 2004-2005 Research/Teaching Assistant University of Michigan
- 2000-2003 Senior Research Analyst Brookings Institution, Washington DC
- 1999-2000 Research Assistant University of Chicago
- 1998-1999 Case Manager Big Brothers Big Sisters of King County, Seattle
- 1998-1999 Recruitment and Case Manager Denise Louie Head Start, Seattle
Education
- 2003-2008 PhD in Sociology & Public Policy University of Michigan, USA
- 2006-2008 Certificate in Complex Systems University of Michigan, USA
- 2000-2001 MA in Social Science University of Chicago, USA
- 1994-1998 BA in History Bard College, USA
- 1997 Semester abroad in Social Sciences (BA) Universidad Blas Pascal, Argentina
Other
- A1 French Migros Klubschule, 2021
- Certificate in Didactics, Bern University of Applied Science, 2018
- Essex Quantitative Methods Summer School, Bayesian Statistics, 2008
- Pedagogical Training for Teaching Assistants, University of Michigan, 2006
- Intensive Italian Madre Lingua, Bologna, 2006
- ICPSR Quantiative Methods Summer School, Geostatistics, 2004
- Intensive Spanish, Instituto Cultural Oaxaca,1995
Projects
Publications
Families Models and Unemployment (Swiss National Science Foundation)
Hevenstone, Debra; Kessler, Dorian; Luchsinger, Larissa (2023) What Limits Intra-Household Insurance or the "Added Worker Effect"? forthcoming in Socio-Economic Review
Kuhn, Ursina; Hevenstone, Debra; Vandecasteele, Leen, Sephniya, Samin; Kessler, Dorian (2023). Unemployment Insurance and the Family: How reemployment and economic precarity depend on family context (working paper, in progress)
Reducing Work After Childbirth: A causal estimate of long-run lost income (Swiss National Science Foundation, with Ana Fernandes)
Fernandes, Ana; Hevenstone, Debra (2023). Income Losses Following First Births. (working paper, revision in progress)
MOZART: Models for the Future of the Labor Market 45+ (part of the National Innovation Network Age in Society (AGE-NT)) (employee)
Hevenstone, Debra; Neuenschwander, Peter; Kessler, Dorian (2023). How Pension Costs Impact Job Search and Wages: Are Higher Contributions for Older Workers More Equitable? (working paper, revision in progress).
Labor Market Mismatch (SECO)
Hevenstone, Debra (2017). Defining a Labor Market and the Sensitivity of Estimates of Labor Market Mismatch (working paper discontinued during maternity-copy available upon request).
Misc
Hevenstone, Debra (2014). Social Policy's Middle Way: Housing Cooperatives & Inclusionary Zoning. Swiss Sociological Association Conference Proceedings.
Hevenstone, Debra (2001). Testing Variation in Welfare Reform. Anthropology News 42.
Memberships
External memberships
LIVES , Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research working groups
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
European Network for Social Policy Analysis
Society of Labor Economists
Language skills and intercultural knowledge
Language skills
- English - Native or bilingual proficiency
- German - Full professional proficiency
- Spanish - Limited working proficiency
- French - Elementary proficiency
Intercultural knowledge
- Switzerland
- United States of America
- United Kingdom
- Cuba
- Argentina