
Sarah Charnes
As a former civil servant, Sarah is deeply committed to the training of future public servants. Sarah has served as a teaching assistant for six Evans School MPA courses (economics and quantitative methods), a guest lecturer or presenter in several Evans School MPA and Executive MPA courses, and a facilitator for pedagogical training sessions held by the UW's Center for Teaching and Learning. She received the Evans School MPA students' award for outstanding teaching assistance for the 2017-2018 academic year. In 2019, Sarah was a predoctoral instructor for the second of two first-year core courses in quantitative methods (multiple regression and causal inference) in the Evans School's MPA program.
Sarah has worked as a research assistant for several quantitative and qualitative projects, and received a certificate from the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at Syracuse University (Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs) in 2016. Sarah's doctoral work focuses upon the intersection of social policy and food policy in the United States. Her dissertation investigates issues pertaining to food and nutrition assistance programs (including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), household food insecurity, work requirements, and vulnerable subpopulations. Sarah's dissertation work has been supported in part by a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service and a dissertation fellowship from the UW's West Coast Poverty Center.
Demographics
Demography and Ecology
Quantitative Methods
Social Policy
Social Policy Implementation
Urban and Social Policy
Allard, Scott W. and Paisner, Sarah Charnes. “The Rise of Suburban Poverty.” Oxford University Press Handbooks Online. September 2016.
Krueger, Alan B. and Charnes, Sarah. “JOLTS as a Timely Source of Data by Establishment Size.” Monthly Labor Review. May 2011.
Predoctoral Instructor for PUBPOL 528: Quantitative Analysis II (Spring 2019)
Guest Lecturer (“The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program”) for PUBPOL 570: Foundations of Social Policy (Winter 2019)
Teaching Assistant for PUBPOL 527: Quantitative Analysis I (Winter 2016; Winter 2018; Winter 2019)
Guest Lecturer (“Hypothesis Testing;” “Serial Correlation and Heteroskedasticity”) for PUBPOL 528: Quantitative Analysis II (Spring 2018)
Guest Lecturer (“Hypothesis Testing”) for PUBPOL 527: Quantitative Analysis I (Winter 2018)
Teaching Assistant for PUBPOL 528: Quantitative Analysis II (Spring 2016; Spring 2018)
Teaching Assistant for PUBPOL 516: Economics for Policy Analysis and Management I (Fall 2015)
TA Workshop Facilitator (“Grading Short-Answer Questions on Homework, Exams, or Lab Reports”) for UW’s Center for Teaching and Learning’s TA Conference on Teaching and Learning (September 2018; September 2016)
Graduate Fellow, Scholars Strategy Network, Washington Chapter, AY 2020-21
Chair, Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Student Activities Committee, CY 2020
Member, Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Student Activities Committee, CY 2019
Ph.D. Student Representative, Evans School Ph.D. Committee, AY 2016-17
Charnes, Sarah E. “Imperfect Take-Up and Targeting.”
Charnes, Sarah E. “The Impact of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Time Limits on Household Food Insecurity.”
Charnes, Sarah E. “The SNAP Benefit Payment Cycle and the Acquisition of Free Food.”
Charnes, Sarah E. “Investigating the Relationship Between Household Food Insecurity and Disability Status.”
Research Funding:
Co-Investigator, “Exploring Household Food Outcomes Among the Elderly, the Disabled, and Residents of Suburban and Rural Communities.” Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. Provides access to restricted-use National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS). (With Scott W. Allard, Principal Investigator.) 2017-20.
West Coast Poverty Center (University of Washington) Dissertation Fellowship, Summer 2018. (National Poverty Research Center Dissertation Fellowship awarded by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with funding from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.)
Teaching Awards:
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Academic Year 2017-18 (selected by Evans School MPA students)
Miscellaneous:
Certificate of Completion, Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, June 2016