Desmond Ang

Desmond Ang is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School specializing in applied economics with a focus on racial discrimination. His research examines the causes and consequences of racial disparities in policing, education, and voting rights.

Major publications investigate how historical media shaped racial violence, the educational impacts of police violence on urban students, and long-term effects of voting rights oversight. His work combines quasi-experimental methods with historical analysis to quantify discrimination's societal costs.