Kaitlyn M. Sims

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Kaitlyn Sims is an assistant professor at the University of Denver's Scrivner Institute for Public Policy. She is also a fellow at the non-profit Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. Her mixed-methods research agenda is informed by her training as an applied economist. Dr. Sims' work is at the intersection of public health, the economics of violence, and environmental health hazards. Her current book project is a public policy analysis of domestic violence shelters (forthcoming June 2027). She uses data in all scales, including original data collection, "big" data and spatial analysis, program evaluation, and qualitative interviews. Dr. Sims has been published in such venues as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Journal of Public Health, Punishment & Society, and Critical Social Policy.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Denver

Education

  • 2022 
    University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD/Agricultural and Applied Economics
  • 2019 
    University of Wisconsin-Madison, MSc/Agricultural and Applied Economics

Publications

  • 2026
    Jailization: Entering the Lobby to the US Criminal-Legal System, Punishment & Society
  • 2025
    COVID-19 structural transformation and program adaptation in emergency domestic violence shelters, Violence Against Women
  • 2025
    Hot tempers: Differential effects of heat and drought on domestic violence, Review of Economics of the Household
  • 2025
    Practice and Practicalities: Challenges to Housing First implementation across nine DV service providers, Journal of Family Violence
  • 2025
    Policymaking and pretrial fairness: Evaluating Illinois' ban on cash bail beyond Chicago, Journal of Criminal Justice
  • 2024
    Impacts of the US EITC program on domestic violence, Review of Economics of the Household
  • 2024
    (Dis)honorably discharged: Identifying policy gaps in military-civilian reintegration, Health Affairs Scholar
  • 2024
    The prison boom, local interpersonal violence, and domestic violence homicide, The Journal of Crime and Justice
  • 2023
    Barriers to Safe and Secure Housing in the Section 8 Voucher Program Post-Dobbs?, Critical Social Policy
  • 2023
    From philosophy to practice: Designing a multi-method, multi-stage program evaluation of the Wisconsin Domestic Violence Housing First pilot program., INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
  • 2023
    The Prison Bust: Mapping U.S. Prison Closures and their Local Economic Effects, Punishment & Society
  • 2023
    Agricultural intensification and childhood cancer in Brazil., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2022
    Productive cattle ranches reduce carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon, Environmental Research Letters
  • 2021
    Prisons and COVID-19 spread in the United States., American Journal of Public Health

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