Jacob L. Vigdor joined the Evans School as a professor of public policy and governance in 2014. Professor Vigdor serves as director of the Seattle Minimum Wage Study and the Northwest Applied Public Policy Lab.  He holds affiliations as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and an external fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London.  At the Evans School, he specializes in teaching quantitative methods, with an emphasis on techniques for inferring the causal impact of policy interventions.