Dr. Leonard Lopoo
Leonard M. Lopoo is the Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics and Associate Dean for Public and International Affairs Programs at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School. Lopoo received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2001 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University from 2001-2003 before joining the Maxwell School.
He is a nationally recognized expert on family policies, particularly as they relate to fertility, marriage, and maternal employment. He has written over fifty academic articles and reports on these topics and is the author of the recently published book Wanting Children: Family Planning Policies and the Engineering of America’s Population from the University of Chicago Press.