Senior Fellow, McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University
Expertise: 2020 Census, American Community Survey, child well-being, demographic trends in the United States, estimation and forecasting, inequality.
Beth Jarosz has more than two decades of experience in demographic and socioeconomic analysis to support evidence-based decisions. Jarosz has published on topics including poverty, mortality, novel estimation techniques, the quality of administrative records, and disclosure avoidance for the 2020 Census. She has participated, as a speaker and as an organizer, in National Academies workshops on the American Community Survey, 2020 Census, and communicating the quality of federal statistics.
Jarosz is currently a senior fellow at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and vice president of the Association of Public Data Users. She has been a senior program director at PRB, overseeing a portfolio of projects tracking subnational demographic, socioeconomic, and health trends. Prior to that she was a researcher at the San Diego Association of Governments. Jarosz received her M.A. in Demographic and Social Analysis from the University of California, Irvine.