Rebecca London is Assistant Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz's Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community. She brings to BPA experience in assessing the effects of welfare reform on a host of outcomes, including: employment and earnings; family formation; and college enrollment and graduation. In her five years at BPA, she served as Project Director or Principal Investigator of numerous welfare evaluations, including those conducted in Arkansas and Colorado, as well as several local evaluations in California. She also served as Senior/Principal Analyst on several Department of Labor-funded evaluations and was a member of the Board of Directors for two years.

Since leaving BPA in 2000, Dr. London has procured funding from a variety of sources to conduct research in the following areas:

• With funding from the Spencer Foundation and the University of California All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity (UC ACCORD), Dr. London is examining college enrollment and graduation among welfare recipients over the 1980s and 1990s. She is studying both the determinants of college enrollment and graduation and their consequences, including employment, recidivism and time on aid.
• Joint with Jane Mauldon at University of California, Berkeley and David Fein of Abt Associates, with funding from the Annie E. Casey and Smith Richardson Foundations, Dr. London is examining the effects of welfare reform on family formation. See the Welfare Reform and Family Formation website at: http://www.abtassociates.com/wrffproject.
• With colleagues Robert Fairlie and Manuel Pastor, Dr. London is examining youth and the digital divide. With funding from the William T. Grant Foundation, Dr. London is heading a study examining programs available to disadvantaged youth through community technology centers nationwide.
• With funding from the Association of Public Policy and Management and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Dr. London conducted a study of welfare diversion. Study results were published in the Social Service Review in September 2003.
• With funds from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, she has continued to serve as Principal Investigator on the Evaluation of Families in Transition, conducted jointly with BPA.
• Dr. London is currently working with BPA on the Evaluation of California's Five-Year Time Limit.

Dr. London holds an M.A. in Economics and a Ph.D. in Human Development and Social Policy, both from Northwestern University.