Pamela Herd

Herd's research focuses on how policies affect inequality. Much of her recent research focuses on administrative burden, or the bureaucratic obstacles that people encounter when trying to access government benefits, services, and rights. She is especially interested in how this burden both is shaped by and further reinforces inequality. She has a book published by the Russell Sage Foundation: Administrative Burden. Policymaking by other Means, which has received numerous awards. Her writing has been published in venues including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vox, Bloomberg News, and Slate.